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Spelman College Names Center for Innovation & the Arts after President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D.

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Saturday, April 30, 2022
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ATLANTA, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spelman College announced today that it will name the new 84,000-square-foot Center for Innovation & the Arts in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., the 10th president of the College.

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  • ATLANTA, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spelman College announced today that itwillname the new 84,000-square-foot Center for Innovation & the Arts in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., the 10th president of the College.
  • Recently named the Arthur M. Blank Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Lab is open to all the College's liberal arts disciplines.
  • The Arthur Blank Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab will also be home to the co-curricular activities of the Center for Black Entrepreneurship.
  • "The rapid convergence of art, technology, and entrepreneurship, with the liberal arts and sciences are beginning to yield new solutions to old challenges," said Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., president of Spelman College.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Kicks Off the New Decade With the United States Debut of Theaster Gates' "Black Image Corporation"

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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"Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation" was first presented at the Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2018 and subsequently at Gropius Bau in Berlin in 2019.

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  • "Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation" was first presented at the Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2018 and subsequently at Gropius Bau in Berlin in 2019.
  • The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art's presentation of "Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation"is made possible by the Wish Foundation and the LUBO Fund.
  • Public collections include Tate Modern, London, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
  • The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, which was established in 1996, inspires and enriches the Spelman College community and the general public through art by and about women of the African Diaspora.

Artist Mildred Thompson Headlines Fall Exhibition at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
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ATLANTA, Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will launch its 2019-2020 exhibition season with the Atlanta premiere of "Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 2003" on view Wednesday, Sept. 11 through Saturday, Dec. 7.

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  • ATLANTA, Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will launch its 2019-2020 exhibition season with the Atlanta premiere of "Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 2003" on view Wednesday, Sept. 11 through Saturday, Dec. 7.
  • This original exhibition, curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., C'93, director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and Melissa Messina, curator of the Mildred Thompson Estate, is the artist's first large-scale, interdisciplinary solo exhibition in the city.
  • In 1986 she accepted an invitation to be an artist-in-residence at Spelman College.
  • Throughout her artistic career, Mildred Thompson sought to find meaning in the world through abstraction.