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Visual Exegesis: Religious Art from the Jean E. and Robert E. Steele Collection
Opening April 4, 2008
Yale Institute of Sacred Music Gallery Space
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad
October 26, 2008 - February 28, 2009
University of Maryland University College
An exhibition of 50 paintings, drawings, studies and etchings by Joseph Holston that chronicles his artistic interpretation of slavery in four movements:
I. The Unknown World
II. Living in Bondage--Life on the Plantation
III. Journey of Escape
IV. Color in Freedom
ALSO:
Color in Freedom Conference
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Sponsored by the David C. Driskell Center
University of Maryland, College Park
This scholarly conference will examine the history of the Underground Railroad, its visual presentation by artists, as well as myths and symbolism associated with the Underground Railroad.
Further information about the conference is available from the David C. Driskell Center, 301-314-2615.
Joseph Holston: Thirty-five Years of Art--A Retrospective Exhibition
October 2008 - February 2009
Art Gallery of the Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Board Art Gallery
Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
Constitution Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, NW
Washington, D. C.
New Etchings
December 2008
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Washington Printmakers Gallery
1732 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, D. C.
202-332-7757
New from Art Publisher Pomegranate Communications
Joseph Holston: On the Water boxed notecards
www.pomegranatecommunications.com/0450.html
Pomegranate Communications, internationally known for its superb art books and other art products, has recently introduced a set of boxed notecards featuring four Holston paintings: Man in Boat, Two Men in a Boat I, Into the Sunset, and Tropical Breeze. Use the above link to see the cards and to order them directly from Pomegranate.
Museum/Public Collections
The Yale University Art Gallery recently added the color etching "Man in Boat" to its collection of prints, drawings and photographs. This collection contains approximately 25,000 prints and 8,000 drawings (plus a small group of illuminated miniatures) ranging from the fifteenth century to the present, and 5,000 photographs primarily from the twentieth century.
"Man in Boat" was executed in 2006, and published by the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland at College Park. It was printed by the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Layette College, Easton, PA, under center director and master printer Professor Curlee Holton.
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These institutions and organizations also have recently added works by Joseph Holston to their permanent collections:
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Butler Institute of American Art
Maryland Artists Collection,
University of Maryland University College
Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
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