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Mark your calendar for this special evening with Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s new executive director, Dr. Liz Andrews.Dr. Andrews co-curated The Obama Portraits Tour and the companion exhibition Black American Portraits at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she spent the last five years as the executive administrator in the director’s office. Her dissertation, “Envisioning President Barack Obama,” focused on the role of visual images in the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the nation’s forty-fourth president. Andrews will discuss the significance of the Obama portraits in the context of presidential portraiture and U.S. visual culture.
Banner Artworks: “Barack Obama” by Kehinde Wiley, oil on canvas, 2018. “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama” by Amy Sherald, oil on linen, 2018. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and Kent Whealy; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia.
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States
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