You are in for a TREAT! Join us Saturday, June 3rd 12PM - 2PM at Hammonds House Museum for COMMUNITY DAY featuring a Printmaking Workshop by amazing artist, Jerushia Graham!
Jerushia will be conducting an in-person printmaking workshop (with stencil letters) for the entire family (ages 6 and up)! Plus view the current exhibition, ATLANTA BLACK, by Paul Stephen Benjamin.
FREE Admission. Registration is Required. (PLEASE NOTE: ALL CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT AT ALL TIMES!)
Lite snacks and beverages will be served!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jerushia Graham is the Museum Coordinator for the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking and a working artist. She is an Atlanta-based printmaker, papermaker, book artist, and fiber artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally. Graham is a member of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collect, the Movable Book Society, and the North American Hand Papermakers. She served as the first VP of Exhibitions/Curatorial for the North American Hand Papermakers (2020-2021) She has also been a guest curator for the Zora Neale Hurston Museum in Eatonville, FL and The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning in Duluth, GA. Graham was previously the Education Director for Atlanta Printmakers Studio, a foundations professor for the University of West Georgia and the Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur and a book arts/papermaking/print professor for Kennesaw State University. She has taught classes for Arrowmont Arts and Craft School and Paper Book Intensive at Oxbow. Prior to her work in Georgia she served as the Museum Director and Education Coordinator for Spiral Q, an arts and social justice non-profit in Philadelphia. Graham exhibited as one of five artists selected by the GA Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibit at MOCA GA, Paper Routes: Women To Watch 2020. Several of her works have traveled the state of Georgia in Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut and Paste, an exhibition sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art and Lyndon House Museum. In This Place, a solo exhibition was on view at the Hudgens Center in Duluth, GA at the end of 2022. She is an alumnus of The Creatives Project artist residency, the 40th St. AIR program, Experimental Printmaking Institute internship, African American Museum of Philadelphia work study, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum apprenticeship program. She earned an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and BFA degrees in Fabric Design and Printmaking from the University of Georgia in Athens. She was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina and grew up on military bases in Kansas, Germany, North Carolina, and Georgia. She will be in residency at Halden Bookworks in Tistedal, Norway in 2024. Graham is interested in creating spaces for empathy and socially-minded introspection through her artwork, workshops, and curatorial projects.
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This exhibition, along with all public programs and the Hammonds House Museum is supported by generous funding from Fulton County Board of Commissioners through the Fulton County Department of Arts and Culture, City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, National Performance Network (NPN), Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, the Estate of Dr. Doris Derby, and Hammonds House Museum Members and Donors.