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Explore in-depth articles, interactive content, high-resolution images, archival materials, videos, and more in this series of publications that focus on the High Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

Black Quilts from the High Museum

Over the past five years, the High has more than quadrupled the number of quilts made by African American women in its collection, which today include one of Jessie Telfair’s iconic Freedom quilts, fifteen masterpieces from the artists of Gee’s Bend, and stunning pieces by members of Atlanta’s more than twenty-year-old quilt guild, the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild. This suite of digital resources is published in conjunction with the exhibition Patterns in Abstraction: Black Quilts from the High’s Collection, which features seventeen quilts—all acquired since 2005—and addresses the question, “How can quilts made by Black women change the way we tell the history of abstract art?”

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Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection

For nearly all of photography’s 182-year history, women have shaped the development of the art form and experimented with every aspect of the medium. This exhibition, drawn primarily from the High’s collection, tracked this history from the early 1800s to the present. This was not a complete history of photography or of women’s contributions to it. Instead, we drew on our collection to present distinct arenas in which women contributed and often led the way: as a new breed of professionals who established leading reputations across the fields of creative photography, photojournalism, advertising, and documentary work in the first half of the 1900s; as avid experimenters with photographic processes in the 1970s onward; as keen observers of the cultural, political, and interior lives of other girls and women; and as conceptual artists exploring and often challenging social constructions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity.

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Collections, Conservation, and Collaboration: A Compilation of Mellon Object-Centered Research Fellowship Papers

The commemorative LiNK project provides viewers with new ways of experiencing collection-based scholarship through interactive web pages. These writings, authored by students from the Mellon Object-Centered Curatorial Research Fellowship program, are the result of a successful collaboration with Emory University and our commitment to the Mellon Object-Centered Curatorial Research Fellowship program.

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Road to Freedom

This publication presents a narrative of some of the key moments of the civil rights movement, including the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Birmingham hosings of 1963, and the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965. These are the unforgettable images that helped to change the nation, increasing the momentum of the nonviolent movement by dramatically raising awareness of injustice and the struggle for equality.

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Picturing the South: 25 Years

The South has long held a pivotal but uneasy place within broader American history and culture. Uniquely American musical and literary movements emerged here while many great political and social leaders hail from the region, yet histories of violence, disenfranchisement, and struggle dating back centuries also reverberate. For these reasons, the South is perhaps the most mythologized, stereotyped, and visually represented region in the country. In many ways, to understand America, one needs to grapple with the South.

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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

This suite of digital resources builds on the High Museum of Art’s 2021–2022 exhibition and publication Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe. Experience the exhibition and related programming, learn more about Rowe’s life and artworks, and explore multimedia content from the exhibition’s curator and other catalogue contributors.

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LINK: A Digital Platform for Scholarly Content

Black Quilts from the High Museum

Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection

Collections, Conservation, and Collaboration: A Compilation of Mellon Object-Centered Research Fellowship Papers

Road to Freedom

Picturing the South: 25 Years

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe