Imagination as Method: Emma Amos, Art, and Creativity
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The Robert P. Madison Family Distinguished Lecture in African and African American Art
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Photo courtesy of Kelvin Bulluck
About The Event
Figurative, representational art is never merely descriptive. In this lecture, Dr. Rhea L. Combs explores how imagination and the imaginary factor into the practice of art making. By exploring the work of Emma Amos and other artists, Combs examines the indelible power of creativity beyond the canvas and looks at its impact on the artist, archives, and community.
Dr. Rhea L. Combs, now senior fellow in contemporary and global art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, was previously director of curatorial affairs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) where she served as the curator of film and photography and head of the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA).
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Sponsors
All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen, and Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Mrs. Martine Kowal, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Medical Mutual of Ohio, the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund, the Reinberger Foundation, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Susan LaPine, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Lu Anne and the late Carl Morrison, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Suzanne Cushwa Rusnak and Jeff Rusnak, Ellen and Lowell Satre, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Saundra K. Stemen, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Education programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
