Spelman/Morehouse Night at the Museum

Come join us at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art for an evening together celebrating our new upcoming exhibition, Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides! 

In her first solo museum presentation, Calida Rawles envisions water as a space for Black healing. Merging hyperrealism, poetic abstraction, and water's cultural and historical symbolisms, Rawles creates unique portraits of Black bodies submerged in and interacting with bright and mysterious bodies of water. The water, a sort of character within the paintings, is embodied as a vital, organic, multifaceted material and historically charged space that signifies historical trauma and racial exclusion but also physical and spiritual healing. 

Together we'll enjoy small bites and a specialty cocktail while sharing information about both our Black Art! Collective, an affinity group that celebrates and acquires art by Black Artists, and we'll enjoy sneak peek of our newest exhibition by a Spelman Alumna opening in March!