February 27
We were thrilled to host and to hear Susan E. Richmond’s lecture, our annual Sarah Hamilton Leathers ’53 and Leone Bowers Hamilton ’26 Art Lecture, as part of our exhibition programming.
Susan opened with Roxie Fricton’s site-specific work, Magnolia Meets Dana (2025), which responds to the pattern in and shapes of the building’s brick screen, to the opening between the Dalton Gallery and the 2nd-floor studio and and issues from elements of the the immediate landscape (Roxie made the dye from the magnolia outside the entrance to Dana). She introduced us to the international dialogues on fiber art in the mid-twentieth century and to examples of large-scale projects in several of JohnPortman’s buildings in downtown Atlanta. What an exciting extension of our research on Dana!
Visit Susan’s website for more information on the Lost Weavings project, with Jess Jones.
