November 26 - January 9, 2007
Frank Toby Martin
Frank Toby Martin was born in 1951 in Jacksonville, Florida. Sunday school, discipline, community activities, and sports shaped his childhood. All modeled into a family who supported individual development.
Frank Toby Martin's passion for the arts began while playing in his grandfather's dump as a child. For Martin this place was more than the final destination for others discarded items, this was architecture, sculpture, music, and photography. It was here in his grandfather's material landscape, that he perceived the meaning of form, light, space, and shape. It was also here where he realized that things that normally would not go together could come together as one to create masterpieces. Click here for more information.
January 21 - March 29
Rashida Ferdinand. New Orleans based sculptor and installation artist Rashida Ferdinand has exhibited throughout the region and is considered one of the South's promising young artist. Click here for more information.
April 29 - June 21
Betty Blayton/Robin Holder, Two New York based artist's working in the mediums of painting and printmaking. Betty Blayton is an accomplished artist and arts activist whose works are in many major museum and corporate collections. She is also a founding member of the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Children's Arts Carnival and Harlem Textile works. Robin Holder creates layered paintings and prints that are both spontaneous and structured that speak to the layered histories and iconographies and symbolism that shape world culture. Click here for more information.
June 27 - September 9
Theodore A. Harris is a poet, muralist and collagist born in New York City and currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. As a muralist he has been painting with the Mural Arts program of Philadelphia since 1983. His published art and poetry have appeared in various journals and publications such as Newark Review. In addition to being exhibited at one-man and group shows from coast to coast, Harris's work has appeared in numerous publications, including Long Shot, The Hammer, Unity & Struggle, AAR, and the important anthologies Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature and Art and In Defense of Mumia. Building upon his reputation forged at MAP as a spirited collaborator and generous mentor, Theodore Harris has taught art in a number of settings, serving for example as Artist in Residence at the Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Ct. As an artist-activist always seeking new audiences, Harris has worked in a variety of public venues, including several heralded theatrical productions-most notably, the stagings of Langston Hughes's Black Nativity at Washington's Lincoln Theatre and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman at Philadelphia's Iron Age Theatre. Click here for more information.
Original poster art from the Black Liberation Movement of the 60's and 70's on loan from the private collection of Mr. Joseph Goncalves will also be exhibited during this time period. Accompanying the Harris exhibit will be original poster art from the Black Liberation Movement of the 60's and 70's from the collection of Mr. "Dingane"Joseph Goncalves, a founding editor and publisher of the Journal of Black Poetry and a significant contributor to the Black Arts Movement of the 60's. As one of the foremost collectors of Black Liberation poster art from this period, Mr. Goncalves' collection offers an overview of the social movements and ideas that joined activists and artists in powerful union. Theodore Harris and the artists from this era maintain parallel objectives of producing art reflecting strong social and political voices. The exhibition opened, by design, during the US Social Forum Conference in Atlanta (6/27-7/1) which provided an appropriate platform for the work on display to bring focus to the relevant and important role that art plays in communicating and interpreting the ills of society. As part of our educational outreach Hammonds House Museum partner ed with the US Social Forum to provide programming which looked at the historical legacy of poster art and how it is being used around the globe today to impact public opinion and the ways we think about justice and self identification. Click here to learn more.
July 6 - September 9
Caversham Recent Works and the Global Portals Interactive Initiative.
September 16 - November 4
Joseph Delaney/Damond Howard
Joseph Delaney, the brother of artist Beuford Delaney, was an accomplished artist in his own right working in the realm of social realism. The works in this exhibition come from the collection of his works housed at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Damond Howard explores and questions relationships that construct identity and subjecthood. Click here for more information.
November 18, 2007 - January,13 2008
Beverly Guy-Sheftal Quilt exhibit. Exhibition to be curated by Akua McDaniel. The politically charged quilts of Beverly Guy-Sheftal will explore the conceptual possibilities of The medium in the context of contemporary art.
Tour Information:
Call 404.612.0500 for information about guided educational tours.
Available with the exhibit - "Viewpoint" a children's interactive handout developed for each exhibition and the video tape viewing of the artist talk.
Ask about the West End Cultural Tour which includes a Hammonds House Museum tour and a visit to the Wren's Nest House Museum.
