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Raggin' on
Through this catalog, readers will experience Aminah Robinson's amazing house, her art, and her profuse journals. In them, as was so often the case, she succinctly defined the importance of art in general and of her relationship with the Columbus Museum of Art.
Aminah's World
Children explore the life and art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson by interpreting her work and conceptualizing their own world in a fun and entertaining way.
Symphonic Poem
For me, there is no distinction between life and art. Folk art has to do with families and communities. It's timeless. It permeates the soul. It's the way people do things that's passed from generation to generation.
A Street Called Home
Depicts Afro-American life in the 1940's on Mount Vernon Avenue, the main street in Poindexter Village, a Metropolitan Housing Development in Columbus, Ohio.
To Be a Drum
Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.
Elijah's Angel
At Christmas-Hanukkah time, a Christian woodcarver gives a carved angel to a young Jewish friend, who struggles with accepting the Christmas gift until he realizes that friendship means the same thing in any religion.
A School for Pompey Walker
At the dedication of a school named after him, an old former slave tells the story of his life and how his white friend helped him earn the money for the school by repeatedly selling him into slavery, after which he always escaped.
The Teachings
"Spirituals have inspired and illuminated the lives of generations of Americans. Invented, edited, and transformed by those who sang them, spirituals are a source of pride and of cultural knowledge - strengthening, heartening, and informing." "Artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, having drawn courage and wisdom from these songs all her life, here presents the images they evoke in her. She incorporates texts into the art - some from a little book of spirituals that was given to her when she was nine years old, some from a lifetime of "just hearing songs." Aminah has "re-remembered" these songs, adding to them, rearranging them, interpreting them. In this collection of striking drawings she passes on to the children of the future "the teachings," the lessons of the past, the lessons of the spirituals, as she has understood them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Raggin' On
When artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, a MacArthur "genius" award recipient, passed away in 2015, she left her estate to the Columbus Museum of Art. Crammed with an array of work ranging from monumental tapestries she called RagGonNons to intricate "sacred manuscript pages" on paper-thin sheets of deerskin, her house and its contents reflect her passion "to fill in the blank pages of African American history with art." Combining text with pen and ink and watercolor drawings, she created button- and beaded- encrusted journals to record her experiences in Europe, South America, and the Middle East and others to expound on the layers of meaning embedded in her work. These objects from the hom...
The Shaking Bag
An old African-American woman willingly shares all she has and is repaid witha bag that provides for all her needs. Full-color illustrations.
