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Eighty Years Later, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet at Spelman

Egungun Atipako—with hand-woven aso ofi textiles. Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo: Bolaji Campbell, 2007

Cloth as Metaphor in Egungun Costumes

Curator

Egungun costumes are usually created from a wide variety of carefully chosen fabrics ranging from exquisite samples of local handwoven aso ofi to exotic fabrics imported from aro

A pair of masqueraders honors the spirits of departed twins, 1986.

Egúngún

Mysteries Concealed in Magical Cloth
Curator

For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.

Under the Big Top

John Steuart Curry's Vision of the Circus
Curator

John Steuart Curry's images of the circus provide us with an insider's look at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 1930s.

Framing Art and the Art of the Frame

Conservation

Understanding historic frames and how to care for them can be a complicated matter.

Building ANEW

Student Voices Studio Notes Teens

This past summer, with a focus on design thinking, the students were asked What is useful? as a starting point for their group design.

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Ballads And Crankies For This Upside-Down World

Performance
Saturday, November 15 / 6:30-7:30 pm
Folded photograph taped to a wall, showing a woman sitting on a chair in front of a window. A large format camera and drinking glasses are on the table next to her, and a house plant hangs above her. She has short hair and is wearing boots, and one of her feet is propped up on the chair in front of her.
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Sally Mann

Artist Talk
September 9, 2025 / 6:30-8:30 pm
A vibrant textile artwork with a glowing spiral against a dark sky surrounded by large rainbows swooping down to large snow-covered mountains stretch below.

Liz Collins

Motherlode
July 19, 2025 - January 11, 2026
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Think & Drink

The Art of French Wallpaper Design
May 8, 2025 / 6-8 pm
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Printing Wallpaper

Conversations and Demonstrations
April 26, 2025 / 3:30-4:30 pm
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Printing Wallpaper

Museum at Night Conversations and Demonstrations
April 24, 2025 / 5-7:30 pm
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Museum at Night

April 24, 2025 / 5-8 pm
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Philippine Textiles - Identity + Power

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March 13, 2025 / 6:30-8 pm
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Printing Wallpaper

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March 5, 2025 / 1:30-3 pm
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Inhabiting Histories

Bernstingle Memorial Program
March 5, 2025 / 12-1 pm
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Translating Tradition - Of Protocols and Readings of the “Past” in Contemporary Iranian Art

Faculty Forum
February 26, 2025 / 12-1 pm
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Super Art Sunday

Patterns and Possibilities!
February 16, 2025 / 11 am-4 pm
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Printing Wallpaper

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February 13, 2025 / 5-7:30 pm
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Panel Discussion
November 21, 2024 / 7-8:30 pm
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Transpacific Dialogues–Asian/American Art of Collaboration

Symposium - DAY 2
October 25, 2024 / 1-4:45 pm
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Transpacific Dialogues–Asian/American Art of Collaboration

Symposium - DAY 1
October 24, 2024 / 2-5 pm
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Roundtable
July 24, 2024 / 3-4:30 pm
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Bernstingle Memorial Lecture

Inner Intensity and Outer Calm
April 30, 2024 / 1-2 pm

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