Join us for Opening Night + the Artist Talk for Foundations and Futures, Friday, October 20, 2023 at 6:30PM.

Hammonds House Museum is honored to close the 35th Anniversary exhibition season with Foundations and Futures, an exhibition curated by Founding Executive Director Edward Spriggs, long time Hammonds House Museum curator Kevin Sipp, and emerging artist and curator Abiose Spriggs.

About the Exhibition

Foundations and Futures celebrates the legacy and the future of the Hammonds House Museum by highlighting the history of significant artists who have exhibited at the institution and examining current visual directions in the African Diaspora. Each curatorial direction showcases a broadening of the Hammonds House Museum as a legacy destination for visual artists of stature and a platform for mid-career and up-and-coming artists as well.

Exhibiting Artists Include:

Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Louis Delsarte, Sam Gilliam, Wadsworth Jarrell, William H. Johnson, Ben Jones, Mailou Jones, Arturo Lindsay, Juan Logan, Valerie Maynard, Prentice Polk, John Riddle, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mildred Thompson, Larry Walker, Amalia Amaki, Radcliffe Bailey, Danny Campbell, Paul Evans, Daniel Hoover, Charles Nelson, Kevin Sipp, Lola Akunola, Davion Alston, Erica Bryant, Daniel Gilstrap, Andrea McKenzie, Jeremee Prileau, Abiose Spriggs and more!

This exhibition is supported by generous funding from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, Fulton County Department of Arts and Culture, City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, National Performance Network (NPN), the Estate of Dr. Doris Derby, B.E.A.M (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective), Dihvinely Konnecked Productions, and Hammonds House Museum Members and Donors.