This September, The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is presenting a stunning exhibit “Between Here & Infinity: Celebrating 30 Years of the Spelman College Art Collection,” an expansive exhibition that features nearly 70 works by Black women artists who have and continue to shape Spelman’s permanent collection.
Keep scrolling to learn more about this stunning new exhibition!
Between Here & Infinity: Celebrating 30 Years of the Spelman College Art Collection
What’s the exhibition about?
Spelman College explains in a statement,
Between Here & Infinity: Celebrating 30 Years of the Spelman College Art Collection is grounded in dreaming and the Black feminist imagination, exploring ways of knowing, seeing, and creating shaped by Black women’s lived experiences. Between Here & Infinity presents artworks drawn from the permanent collection, organized by areas inspired by the layers of Earth’s atmosphere to gesture toward the vast and diverse qualities of the Black feminist imagination which shapes it: the Root, works that ground the collection in origin and tradition; the Threshold, works that evoke crossings through transitional space; the Interior, works that turn inward toward intimacy and quietude; the Expanse, works that are conceptually daring and electric in color; and the Horizon, where the past meets the future and dissolves into limitless possibility.
There isn’t a specific order you need to view the exhibition; in fact, guests are invited to explore the exhibition in any order they choose, taking in the collection’s range and depth.
Spelman Museum Director Liz Andrews said in a statement,
Between Here & Infinity brings a fresh view to the evolving Spelman collection, staging conversations between works across media and across time. This vibrant presentation underscores the generations of curators and artists who have dreamed this museum into existence and made it a place where Black women’s artistic expression is at the center of art history and futures.
This ambitious and beautiful exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Spelman College Archives. The exhibition features archival materials that document the Museum’s first three decades and provide historical context for its role as a leading institution dedicated to art by and about women of the African Diaspora.
After opening September 9th at the Bank of America Gallery at the Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation & the Arts, the second gallery of the exhibit will open in the gallery in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center on October 1, 2026.
Spelman College states,
Bringing together works by women from across the African Diaspora, the presentation encompasses a range of media, including sculpture, textiles, painting, photography, and mixed media. Together, the two gallery presentations celebrate the collection’s rich history while offering a forward-looking view of its continued evolution.
I’ve got to check this out! Details, please!
When: opening September 9, 2026 (expanding to Cosby Gallery on October 1st)
Where: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art galleries | 276 Henry St SW, Atlanta University Center
You can learn more on Spelman Museum’s website, here!
Don’t miss out on this stunning exhibit, ‘Between Here & Infinity: Celebrating 30 Years of the Spelman College Art Collection.’