<strong>Spelman</strong> Names Building in Honor of ‘Sister Prez’ Johnnetta B. Cole Continued from page 1. magazines including U.S. News & World Report and Money. Other highlights of her administration include the <strong>College</strong>’s most successful capital campaign and the establishment of several major initiatives. The capital campaign exceeded its original goal of $81 million to raise an unprecedented $113,885,250, boosting <strong>Spelman</strong>’s endowment to $141 million, among the largest for historically Black colleges and universities. The major initiatives included the Mentorship Program and Corporate Women’s Roundtable, the Sumiko Takahara Japanese Studies program, the International Affairs Center for the Atlanta University Center, the Mickey Leland Scholars Program, the Bonners Scholars Program for Community Service and the Dow Jones- <strong>Spelman</strong> Entrepreneurial Center. Dr. Cole also presided over the restructuring of curriculum, academic affairs and faculty governance as well as an increase in the number of credits required for graduation. “It is impossible to overstate the importance of Johnnetta Cole’s tenure at <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong>. As our first Black woman president, she made our dreams of female leadership and empowerment a reality,” said acclaimed author/play- 6 I NSIDE S PELMAN wright Pearl Cleage, a member of the <strong>Spelman</strong> Class of 1971, and the current Cosby Chair in the humanities. “Her work as an activist, administrator and feminist energized both the faculty and the student body. Her service, not only to the campus, but to the city of Atlanta and nationally, is a model of engaged scholarship and creative civic involvement.” After leaving <strong>Spelman</strong>, Dr. Cole returned to her first love – teaching – in 1998 as presidential distinguished professor of anthropology, women’s studies and African American studies at Emory University. She retired from that position in 2001. Artist Amalia Amaki Shakes the <strong>Winter</strong> Blues Continued from page 1. Amalia Amaki is an artist, art historian, curator and scholar of American art and culture. Perhaps best known for mixed media quilts that celebrate the lives of African American women blues singers and for button-encrusted cyanotypes, Dr. Amaki is also recognized for commissions completed for Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, Absolut Vodka, and Seagram’s Gin. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Georgia State University, a bachelor’s degree in photography and painting from the University of New Mexico, and a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. Currently she is the scholar-in-residence at <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong>, the curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection and an assistant professor in art, art history, and Black American studies at the University of Delaware. Her work is in the permanent collections at numerous museums including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul, Emory University and the <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong> Museum of Fine Art. Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons and the Blues is generously sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company. Major support is also provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council. Additional support is provided by the Massey Charitable Trust and the LUBO Fund, Inc. Official media sponsors are The Atlanta Journal- Constitution and the Atlanta Daily World. A color catalogue – including scholarly essays by Dr. Andrea D. Barnwell, director of <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong> Museum of Fine Art, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, dean of graduate studies at The Maryland Institute <strong>College</strong> of Art, and Dr. Gloria Wade-Gayles, the eminent scholar’s chair in independent study at <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong> – accompanies the exhibition. Co-published by NMWA and <strong>Spelman</strong> in association with University of Washington Press, this 136-page book includes a fully illustrated checklist. The hardcover edition retails for $35. The <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong> Museum of Fine Art is the only museum in the nation that focuses on works by and about women of the African Diaspora. Since it was established in 1996, the Museum At the dedication of the Johnnetta Betch Cole Living & Learning Center II, <strong>Spelman</strong> President Beverly Daniel Tatum joined Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, president of Bennett <strong>College</strong> for Women, Mr. Robert Holland, Jr., former chair of the <strong>Spelman</strong> Board of Trustees, and Ms. Yvonne Jackson, C’70, chair of the <strong>Spelman</strong> Board of Trustees during the ribbon cutting ceremony. In 2002, she received a call to help save the nation’s other historically Black college for women, <strong>Spelman</strong>’s sister school, Bennett <strong>College</strong> for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina. She now serves as Bennett’s 14th president. The Johnnetta Betch Cole Living & Learning Center II is a $7.8 million multipurpose facility that features 200 student beds plus three apartments for visiting lecturers and <strong>College</strong> guests. It also houses <strong>Spelman</strong>’s Continuing Education program. The architectural firm Nix Mann Viehman designed the building. ● has received awards from prestigious organizations including The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Fulton County Arts Council, the Institute of Museums and Library Services, the Museum Loan Network, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the Getty Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. It has also received a host of accolades including the “Best Museum Off Peachtree” (Creative Loafing December 2004); one of the city’s “Fabulous Five Museums” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (July 2005); and the “Best Kept Museum Secrets” (Atlanta Magazine, December 2005). The <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong> Museum of Fine Art is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and on Saturdays from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The Museum is closed Sunday, Monday, holidays and <strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong> breaks. It is located on the first floor of the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center. For more information about the Museum and its programs please call 404.270.5607 or visit www.spelman.edu/museum. ●
<strong>Spelman</strong> <strong>College</strong> Annual Report 2004–2005
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