Blog: Aminah Robinson Legacy Project
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Deidre Hamlar, CMA’s Curator at Large, reflects on her daily experience stewarding the legacy of one of America’s most prolific artists. I have a dream job. I work every day to preserve the life, art, and legacy of one of America’s most profound and prolific artists of my generation, Aminah…
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In August of 2022, The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) awarded the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Artist Residency to Anthony Peyton Young, a Boston-based artist who specializes in drawing, bleaching, ceramics and collage. Since then, Young has been hard at work in the home of the late Aminah Robinson. For…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) has awarded the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Artist Residency to Anthony Peyton Young, a Boston-based artist who specializes in painting, drawing, bleaching, ceramics and collage. Young draws inspiration from Black Americana, film and his native West Virginia to present themes of…
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History-mapping draws the wide and narrow, the known and unknown past to the present. During my residency at the Aminah Robinson house, I examined the impulses behind my prose poem “Blood on a Blackberry” and found a kinship with the textile artist and writer who made her home a…
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Year-long residency in Columbus, Ohio, designed to preserve and activate legacy of late MacArthur Fellow artist and writer COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) announces that Terrance Dean, Ph.D., has been named the first Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Scholar-in-Residence. Dean…
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Columbus philanthropists Donna and Larry James seed new endowment with $25,000 gift COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is proud to announce the launch of the Aminah Robinson Legacy Endowment and Resource Fund to preserve and promote the…
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