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James Milton, Placidity Forenoon, 1976 (Hammonds House Museum collection)

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Hammonds House Museum Board Chair, Imara Canady,  spoke with Kiplyn Primus at WCLK about recent news coverage that focused on 1 component of a larger restructuring effort to ensure the sustainability of the museum this year and beyond.

The pandemic has forced many nonprofit cultural organizations around the land, to reconsider and reconstruct how they continue to serve their communities and honor the history of these precious cultural commodities. The Hammonds Business firm Museum is no exception. This interview adds context to the national story of how arts institutions are navigating this unprecedented time to not but survive merely thrive.

Hammonds House Museum has announced the beginning of a multi-year reorganization program which includes a new leadership structure and a more mission-focused business concern model.

"We have been re-evaluating the museum's current infrastructure and we are implementing changes," states Imara Canady, Board President of Hammonds House Museum. "Factors that influenced our decision include the ongoing effects of the global pandemic, the current economic surround, and the challenges being experienced past arts and cultural organizations – especially African American institutions. We tin can't continue to operate with a traditional business model because nosotros are not a traditional business concern. To be relevant and motility forward, we must embrace new ideas and innovation."

— Printing Release near Hammonds Firm Museum'due south Reorganization on January 20, 2022 (atlanta Patch)

"Exhibiting Civilisation: Highlights from the Hammonds House Museum Collection (through Jan 30) features crown jewels culled from the permanent drove of more than 450 works dating from the mid-19th century, including works by Elizabeth Catlett, Unhurt Woodruff and the oldest known painting by landscape artist Robert S. Duncanson. The showcase is an important milestone for the West End landmark that was established "to preserve, showroom, translate and increase public awareness virtually the contributions that visual artists of African descent have made to world civilization," and information technology marks a full circle moment for the museum'south recently appointed executive director and chief curator, Karen Comer Lowe."

— Interview by Gail O'neill with Hammonds House Executive managing director and Chief curator, Karen Comer Lowe on September thirty, 2021 (ArtsATL)

"Visitors to Atlanta have an opportunity to view artwork that is rarely on display in Exhibiting Civilization: Highlights of the Hammonds Firm Museum Permanent Collection. The musuem is the residendence of the late Dr. Otis Thrash Hammonds, a prominent Atlanta doctor and passionate arts patron. Located in a beautiful Victorian home in West End Atlanta, Hammonds House Museum is a cultural treasure and a unique boasting more than 450 globe course works of art."

— TV feature nigh hammonds house museum on september 26, 2021 (the atlanta channel)

Every bit the delta Covid-19 variant surges, almost venues have imposed vaccination and testing mandates for audition members. Arts presenters and patrons are wary, but still hopeful for the autumn flavor alee.

Karen Comer Lowe, new executive director and chief curator at Hammonds House Museum , expects a busy season of fundraising. The 1857 Victorian domicile in West Cease hosts exhibitions of visual artists of the African diaspora and educational programs but was closed from March 2020 to this summer. On the June twenty-four hour period the museum finally invited the public back in, Comer Lowe looked alee from an upstairs function as music spun by DJ Malik Rock reverberated from downstairs. She called the coming stretch a year of rebuilding, reconnecting, and reaching new audiences.

— Story about venues reopening and fall programming includes Hammonds Firm Museum by Howard Pousner on September ane, 2021 (Atlanta Magazine)

8 Black Fine art Advisors Transforming the Art Market from the Inside. As Black artists proceeds greater recognition, their successes underline how underrepresented Black Americans are in almost all other sectors of the art world. A lack of Blackness individuals in leadership and ownership roles perpetuates the trouble. From galleries and fine art fairs to residency programs, individual museums, and media outlets, and then few are owned or operated by members of Black and African diasporic communities. As the marketplace and collectors' tastes continue to diversify, who volition provide opportunities to preserve Black art in the hands of Black collectors who seek to build a legacy of excellence through culture? Blackness art advisors are poised to play a singular part in this procedure, with the power to pause down neo-colonialist practices that proceed to run rampant in the fine art earth.

—article by Folasade Ologundudu about black art advisors includes hammonds House Museum'southward executive director and chief curator, karen comer lowe, on august half dozen, 2021 (artsy)

Guests to Hammonds Business firm Museum will have an opportunity to view artwork that has rarely been on display when the museum presents Exhibiting Civilization: Highlights from the Hammonds Firm Museum Collection. The exhibition is curated by Hammonds House Museum's Executive Director and Chief Curator Karen Comer Lowe, and volition be on view from August six, 2021, through Jan 30, 2022.

Boasting more than 450 world-form works of art, the Hammonds Firm Museum permanent art collection dates from the mid-19th century past artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean. At the center of the collection are 250 works collected by the former possessor of Hammonds House, Dr. Otis Thrash Hammonds, including work by main artist Romare Bearden and the oldest known painting by acclaimed mural creative person Robert S. Duncanson. Featured in the Exhibiting Culture show will be works by Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Richard Chase, Hale Woodruff, Jacob Lawrence, and many more. Come up explore incredible artwork by some of the earth'due south premiere African American artists, listen to engaging artist interviews on rotation in the museum, and enjoy a stroll through the new Artist Garden. To plan your visit, get to: hammondshouse.org.

— Press release for Exhibiting Culture on august four, 2021 (atlanta Daily world)

A chat with Atlanta creative person Charly Palmer. This week, we'll talk with the artist who created one of 2020′s most memorable works of art. As the nation reeled from video of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests, Time magazine ran a searing embrace image capturing the moment. A painting of a immature black girl in silhouette led the double result, titled "America Must Change." Atlanta artist Charly Palmer was commissioned by Fourth dimension'south artistic managing director to render an image that would capture the seminal episode in the nation's history. You can see that painting and more than of Palmer's work in a retrospective titled "Departure" at the newly reopened Hammonds House Museum.

— Interview with charly palmer by rosalind bentley on July 15, 2021 (AccessAtlanta)

"Charly Palmer'due south 30-year retrospective includes his iconic Fourth dimension magazine cover. One yr ago, on July 6, 2020, equally the nation reeled from video of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests that roiled cities around the world, Fourth dimension magazine ran a searing cover image capturing the moment…

Now, "In Her Eyes" is on view as part of "Departure," a xxx-year retrospective currently on view at Hammonds House Museum. The bear witness runs through Aug. 1. The 40 images in the show span the start of his Atlanta career, when he created ane of the official posters for the 1996 Olympics, to the present moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. Palmer tells the tale of each era'due south ups and downs through the myriad experiences of existence Blackness in America."

— Article nearly Charly palmer by rosalind bentley, july 6, 2021 (atlanta journal-constitution)

"A retrospective of works by American artist Charly Palmer comes to the Hammonds House Museum this summer. A fine artist, muralist, and illustrator of children's books, Palmer's paintings and mixed media works explore themes of African-American identity. The new exhibition, Deviation, volition show works never earlier seen by the public, every bit well as new pieces created expressly for this event. Charly Palmer joined City Lights host Lois Reitzes to talk about Departure and the multiple meanings of the give-and-take, and the history of Black America and African origins told through his fine art."

— Interview with Charly palmer on city lights with Lois reitzes, june 29, 2021 (wabe-fm)

"Atlanta native and national arts veteran Karen Comer Lowe has been named executive director and chief curator of Hammonds Business firm Museum, one of a scattering of Atlanta institutions dedicated to Blackness art.

Comer Lowe, who was virtually recently manager and chief curator of the Chastain Arts Centre begins her new position at the West End museum this month. She succeeds Leatrice Ellzy Wright, who left Hammonds Business firm at the end of May for a programming director position at the Apollo Theater in New York."

—Karen Comer Lowe Named Executive Managing director and master curator of hammonds house museum, june eleven, 2021 (AJC)

Atlanta: Bold and Beautiful: From hip-hop to fine art, street art to high fashion! Explore Atlanta culture in a new interactive online project past Google Arts & Culture, in collaboration with 30 local organizations including Hammonds Firm Musuem at g.co/exploreatlanta .

"We are excited to be a partner in the Google Arts & Culture Atlanta Project," states Donna Watts-Nunn, Managing director of Operations at Hammonds House Museum. "This is an astonishing opportunity to show the world the wealth of cultural, historical, culinary and arts offerings available in Atlanta. We look frontward to welcoming visitors to Hammonds Business firm Museum – in person and online – and sharing the cultural multifariousness and important legacy of artists of African descent."

— Announcement of Google Arts & Culture Atlanta Project on June 8, 2021 (Hatchett PR)

"As an avid art lover and collector, I am always searching for new exhibits, artists, and artwork to notice and share. This summer, art and culture collide in a newly opened exhibition at Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, which is a must-see.

Divergence by Charly Palmer is a retrospective of 30 years of art infused with feel, an Identity Crisis, Divided States, Eminent Domain, Introversion, and a deepening appreciation for Blackness beauty. The exhibition is bachelor through Baronial 1, 2021, with a virtual show experience until May 15. Hammonds Business firm Museum is an ideal backdrop for Palmer's work with its commitment to exhibiting provocative and transformative works past artists from the African Diaspora, providing them with the creative infinite to evidence art that reflects the world as they see it."

— Departure by charly palmer debuts at Hammonds Firm Museum - story by Michel perry, may 13, 2021 (aspire magazine)

"Departure , a virtual exhibition by Atlanta-based artist Charly Palmer , continues through August ane at Hammonds House Museum. Deviation, Palmer says, is a retrospective of 30 years of art infused with feel, an identity crisis, divided states, eminent domain, introversion and a deepening appreciation for Black beauty. Some of the piece of work has never been seen before, some was created for this show. The exhibition'due south opening-nighttime activities are on view through May 15. Details about the residuum of the run are forthcoming."

— Calendar listing for Departure by charly palmer, may 6, 2021 (artsATL)

"HHM Digital invites you to join us for a live streaming session of Conversations well-nigh Jazz & Other Distractions hosted by former jazz radio host and founder of Notorious Jazz, Carl Anthony. On Th, May 13 at 7:xxx pm (EST), Carl's special guests will exist musicians and artists Carmen Lundy, Alyn Shipton and Al Johnson. They volition talk over The Art Of Jazz and how artists and musicians see, hear and feel the magic and music we telephone call jazz."

— Press release: conversations nigh jazz examines the art of jazz, may v, 2021 (atlanta Daily world)

"Wine & Words host Michelle Gipson brings together colleagues and fans to honor the legacy and pay tribute to New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey on Tuesday, April 20 at vii PM (EST). The date coincides with the publication of Dickey's last novel, The Son of Mr. Suleman. Among the special guests joining Gipson will be Travis Hunter, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Yvette Hayward.

— press release for Wine & Words tribute to eric jerome dickey, apr 15, 2021(atlanta daily world)

"Executive Director Leatrice Ellzy Wright is leaving Atlanta'southward Hammonds House Museum in tardily May to become Programming director at the Apollo Theater in New York City. The Hammonds House board appear her exit in a statement today.

Hammonds Business firm, in Atlanta's historic West Finish, celebrates and share the cultural diversity and legacy of artists of African descent. The nonprofit opened in 1988 and is named for the tardily Otis Thrash Hammonds, a physician and arts patron who once lived there. The museum's permanent collection comprises more than 450 works, including art by such heavy-hitters as Amalia Amaki, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Kojo Griffin, Jacob Lawrence and Hale Woodruff."

—Leatrice ellzy wright leaving hammonds house in may to join new york's apollo, april xiv, 2021 (ArtsATL)

"Years ago, when Leatrice Ellzy Wright was a new graduate of Tennessee State University, she attended the National Blackness Arts Festival in Atlanta. Information technology was ten magical days of concerts, plays and exhibits past Black artists from around the world. Afterward she was convinced she'd seen her future. Fast frontwards two decades, after working at Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Woodruff Arts Eye, Wright's declaration came true. The National Black Arts Festival hired her to run programming. She left after x years in 2012 to do consulting and other projects. Simply 3 years ago, Wright took on the daunting task of helping to revive a mainstay Atlanta Black arts institution, i that opened the same year as the festival: Hammonds Firm Museum. She became only the tertiary executive managing director in the organization'southward iii-decade history…"

— Leatrice Ellzy Wright leaving Hammonds House Museum for Apollo, april fourteen, 2021 (AJC)

Apr 8 — Jaspects Reunion: The digital streaming series Conversations Almost Jazz & Other Distractions — hosted by Carl Anthony and sponsored by HHM Digital — returns with a new episode reuniting the celebrated, Atlanta-based jazz/hip-hop/soul grouping Jaspects. True music heads know the band — featuring members Henry C. Conerway III (drums), Terrence Brown (keys), Jaye Price (alto saxophone), Dwayne R. Dugger Jr. (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Rex (trumpet and flugelhorn), and Jon-Christopher Sowells (bass) — and its ultra-dope collaborations with artists similar PJ Morton, Chantae Cann, Janelle Monáe and more.

— upshot listing for conversations about jazz featuring jaspects, apr seven, 2021 (Slo*Mo Atlanta)

"HHM Digital invites you to join us for the return of live streaming sessions of Conversations most Jazz & Other Distractions hosted by former jazz radio host and founder of Notorious Jazz, Carl Anthony. On Thursday, April viii at 7:30 pm (EST), Carl's special guests will exist original members of Jaspects, the innovative band famous for blending hip-hop and jazz and creatively 'redefining all aspects of jazz.'"

— press release for conversations well-nigh jazz featuring Jaspects, April 5, 2021 (Atlanta Patch)

"Atlanta physician Dr. Otis Thrash Hammonds was the kickoff African American resident of this Victorian dwelling house, which he saved from deterioration when he purchased it in 1979. Hammonds was an avid patron of the arts, serving on the boards of the Loftier Museum of Fine art, the Neighborhood Arts Center, and various museums. While living in this house, Hammonds amassed his ain collection of more 250 works of art, many past artists of African and Caribbean descent. Today, the Hammonds House is a museum containing over 450 works of art every bit well as original furnishings and decor."

— House beautiful instagram account featured a live tour of hammonds house museum on february 25, 2021(House beautiful)

"Hammonds House Digital invites you to join us for Conversations almost Jazz & Other Distractions hosted by onetime jazz radio host and founder of Notorious Jazz, Carl Anthony. Carl's special guests will be some of the industry's elevation Producers: Leatrice Ellzy Wright, Executive Director of Hammonds House Museum; Sunny Sumter, Executive Producer of the DC Jazz Festival; and Laura Greer, Senior Producer for The Apollo Theater."

— Press release for Conversations About Jazz, December nine, 2020 (Hatchett PR)

"Hammonds House Digital presents Vino & Words on December 3, 2002. Professor Haki Madhubuti joins Michelle Gipson to talk about his book, Taught Past Women: Poems equally Resistance Language . In these new and selected poems Madhubuti, poet, publisher, editor, and activist, places us in lyrical proximity to a legacy of women whose lives he honors with warm verses and timeless reverence."

— Event list for Wine & WOrds featuring Professor Haki Madhubuti, November 29, 2020 (AJC)

"On September three Conversations almost Jazz delves into the subject of influential jazz composers. Carl's guests for this program will be saxophonist, composer and educator Tia Fuller; trumpeter, composer and leader of the Majestic Krunk Jazz Orkestra Russell Gunn; and drummer, educator and activist Jaimeo Brown. They volition discuss their own music, composers that have influenced them, leadership, making albums and more. This programme is for the jazz novice and jazz caput alike. The effect is FREE, just you must register. To register click Hither.*

— Press release for Sept iii conversations well-nigh jazz program, August 28, 2020 (Broadway Globe)

"Artists Maurice Evans and Grace Kisa curate 1st virtual showroom, Nu Africans. Maurice Evans is a painter and photographer; Grace Kisa is a Kenyan-built-in sculptor and painter. The pair is collaborating on a one-of-a-kind artistic experience that explores womanhood in the Black diaspora. Nu Africans opens Friday, May xv, 2020, at the Hammonds House Museum."

— Munson steed interview with maurice evans and grace kisa, may thirteen, 2020 (rolling Out)

"Bees buzzing. Guttural hums. Rain falling in waves, and the precipitous crevice of thunder. The sounds of a Southern spring emanate from the beginning flooring of the Hammonds House Museum, where Masud Olufani'sTranslocation & Transfiguration is on view. The sounds are coming from two artworks in the second gallery:Inclement WeatherandHive: Elegy for the Fallen. Merely this simulated time travel feels fitting. Indeed, Olufani is concerned with the process of moving, changing, and transforming."

— REVIEW of Translocation & Transfiguration by Yves Jeffcoat, march 4, 2020 (Burnaway)

"Artists as various as octogenarian photographer Lucinda Bunnen and 40ish multidisciplinarian Shanequa Gay popped upward in headlines about Atlanta's Art + Blueprint scene in 2019. LIT WITHOUT SHERMAN – possibly the best showroom title of the year — saluted much more than buildings, historic markers and people in Westward Stop. It was a floors-to-ceilings love letter of humanity, pride and the volition to suffer."

— Art & Blueprint Yr in Review by kathy janich, december 27, 2019 (Arts atl)

Hammonds Business firm Museum featured in Atlanta Magazine'due south Best Of Atlanta 2019 Issue! "When Leatrice Ellzy Wright became executive director of the Hammonds House Museum ii years ago, she was challenged with transforming the celebrated firm into a museum for the 21st century. After a decade of working with the National Black Arts Festival, she was more than than ready for the job. Under her tenure, the museum has launched Hammonds House Honors, the city's only visual art awards for black artists…"

— Best Museum Redux: Hammonds House Museum, story past Kelundra smith, December 5, 2019 (Atlanta Magazine)

"Hammonds House Museum celebrated excellence in blackness visual art with its recent inaugural honors. Honorees included mixed-media artist Tina One thousand. Dunkley for lifetime achievement, Vicki and John Palmer for philanthropy and Fabian Williams for social justice. Williams was recognized for his Kaeperbowl landscape entrada, which focused on former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's activism, during Super Bowl Weekend in Atlanta last February."

— Hammonds Firm Honors recipients appear, october 10, 2019 (Arts ATL)

"Artist Shanequa Gay's exhibition at Hammonds Business firm Museum, Lit Without Sherman: A Honey Letter to the Westward End, is a bittersweet Valentine that celebrates a vibrant slice of Atlanta chop-chop irresolute with gentrification. Working in collaboration with Hammonds Firm executive director Leatrice Ellzy Wright, who wanted Gay to create a site-specific installation in the historic Victorian home's galleries, Gay delivered an immersive, celebratory experience so loaded with emotion, your heart could flare-up."

— Felicia Feaster'south review of lit without sherman, august 8, 2019 (AJC)

"Atlanta artist Shanequa Gay's Hammonds House Museum exhibition, Lit Without Sherman: A Dearest Letter of the alphabet To The West End, is a vibrant and nostalgic tribute to the historic neighborhood's everyday people and its patron saints, from activists to playwrights. Their portraits are painted direct on the museum walls in this ephemeral trunk of piece of work."

— Lois Reitzes' interview with Shanequa Gay on "City LIghts," July 11, 2019 (WABE-FM)

"Tim Fielder is a Glyph Award-winning illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator. His career revolves around comics, graphic novels and other forms of visual literature. Fielder joins us in studio to hash out his latest showroom, "Black Metropolis: thirty Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation, Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains and Negroes,"which is on brandish until Nov. 25 at the Hammonds Firm Museum." (24:14)

— Closer Look: "Black City" Exhibit of Comic Volume Creative person Tim Fielder's Work, october 28, 2018 (WABE)

"Alfred Conteh displays three massive sculptures. As a spiritual activist, Conteh offers the idea that we are passing energy from one generation to the next. In Conduit, Conteh sculpts an electrical socket to the body of a traditional African sculptural form inside a circular shape. In doing so, he is asserting that energy transmits through the torso similar electrical currents. By placing the figure inside a circle, he reinforces the idea that energy moves in a circular management about the world, inside united states of america and between us. What nosotros give, nosotros get back."

— Review: with "RSVP", Atlanta'due south ARtists reserve a seat in the spiritual realm, July x, 2017 (Arts ATL)

"The collage technique is at the root of the inspiration of her appliqués. Collage is an artistic medium popularized by renowned artist Romare Bearden. Once inspired by a concept, Peters begins building the vision of the appliqué by selecting commercially produced fabrics, then cuts, redesigns, and sews past machine to create new images with dimension and depth. One must await advisedly to run across exactly which images and colors have been repurposed to create new scenes. Illusions and surprise textures appear without warning in her appliqués."

— Exhibit: Lessons of Joy, Unbridled Wonders of Blackness Happiness Throughout the Decades, june half dozen, 2017 (Atlanta daily world)

"The HHM lath is then pleased that Leatrice has agreed to join the leadership team of HHM, and build off the legacy of this amazing institution to take it to new heights," says HHM board chair Imara Canady. "She is a seasoned, internationally respected arts administrator and programmer, and we know that she volition practice bully work during her tenure at HHM, and in collaboration with the lath, to continue to make this institution great, and present some of the best, brightest and about innovative artists that the globe has seen."

— Hammonds House Museum marks new era with visionary leadership, May 23, 2017 (Atlanta Daily Earth)

"The arts, especially visual arts, are special to me because I am a visual artist and graphic designer," Fuller explained when being inducted in Atlanta Tribune's Hall of Fame in 2014. "I know the power of the creative process personally and universally in our daily lives as a vehicle for advice, cerebral development, education and enjoyment. My passion for art to exist used to activate alternative methods for anybody, specially young people, to be inspired, knowledgeable about the talents and histories of artists of African descent, and proficient in the academic subjects that are so important in today'due south achievement measurement organization."

— Myrna Fuller, Art Advocate, Retires From The Hammonds House Museum, May 11, 2017 (Atlanta daily earth)

"Mays believes that "everybody is an artist – it merely gets beaten out of us." He also believes that "everything is art" and the subjects of his paintings are drawn from everywhere. Political themes often emerge, though Mays is quick to let those who observe his paintings come with their own meanings. His paintings are often abstruse and figurative at the aforementioned fourth dimension again both confusing the viewers and drawing them in. Mays describes himself every bit "a global contemporary artist," one who is intent on reclaiming his narrative. He says, "I tin can control my narrative considering I am yet alive."

— News: Ealy Mays showroom continues through Sun at Hammonds House, june 24, 2016 (Atlanta Intown)

Chong, who is prone to "picking things upwardly off the street and dragging them inside," prefers to piece of work with organic materials in setups for photos and installations. Burlap (known every bit a crocus-sack in Jamaica) serves as a backdrop for many of his photomontages, and conjures the 112-pound bags of saccharide that were the stock in trade of his family'south confectionery business in Kingston. Skulls, bones, rawhide, hair, horns, shells, leaves, flowers and fruit appear with frequency. He sometimes anchors larger compositions with governmental documents which he calls "markers of our presence in guild [that] for better or worse… remain well afterwards we're gone," every bit in My Jamaican Passport (1992). (His passport photograph, a self-portrait, bears a striking resemblance to Bob Marley.)

— History, family, culture, nature intertwine in Albert Chong'due south photos, at Hammonds House, October 22, 2015 (ArtsATL)

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