- Current Exhibitions
- Future Exhibitions
- Recent Exhibitions
- Collection Highlights
- Aminah Robinson
- Art and Social Issues
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Future Exhibitions
Fur, Fins, & Feathers
Opens July 6, 2010
Street Talk: Aminah's Mt. Vernon Avenue
Opens December, 2010
Fur, Fins, & Feathers
Opens July 6, 2010
Fur, Fins, & Feathers, a family-friendly exhibition about animals in art, showcases works from CMA's permanent collection. This diverse exhibition includes a variety of media and styles such as Innuit stone carvings, wooden African headdresses, contemporary photography, and American folk art prints. Fur, Fins, & Feathers includes many works which visitors may not have seen before. Because the Museum is currently under renovation, CMA can highlight works from our permanent collection that are not normally on view. Enhanced programming related to the exhibition will include hands-on activities, tours, and visits from other community organizations such as Children's Theater and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
Street Talk: Aminah's Mt. Vernon Avenue
Opens December, 2010
Aminah Robinson's RagGonNons, paintings, drawings, hogmawg sculptures, prints and books about Mt. Vernon Avenue, bring to life the heart of this African-American community that flourished on the eastside of Columbus until the early 1960s. The work typifies Aminah's passion with remembering and documenting the past in order to move forward. Aminah emphasizes the economic vibrancy and social activity of the neighborhood and also raises complex racial and political issues that were at play at the time. At the heart of the exhibition, are the scroll-like Memory Maps in which Aminah records every detail of the lively street life of Mt. Vernon Avenue. The street's storefronts, churches, theaters, and offices are the backdrop for Aminah's depictions of The Brownyskin Man, Umbrella Man, Organgrinder and dozens of other figures that populate the street. Many of these figures are also represented in sculptures, prints, and cloth paintings, that demonstrate the artist's use of diverse media and techniques. The Memory Maps became the basis for Aminah's published book, A Street Called Home. Visitors will be able to gain insight into Aminah's creative process by examining her original art for the book and the study that preceded it. The time span represented in the work ranges from the early part of the twentieth century to the 1960s when construction of the interstate highway, urban planning, and civil rights demonstrations dramatically changed the tenor of the neighborhood. In an effort to bring the work alive and provide context for the art, we are video-taping individuals who have memories and stories about the street.
