Passages, #43

Tea Ladies: Emma Holmes Amos and her friends dressed in Japanese kimonos and hairstyles for a Sunday tea party in Atlanta, c. 1900.

Monoprint with acrylic, glitter and photo transfer on Sekishu rice paper

Colored pressed paper pulp with lithographic monotype

Rainforest Pool

Romare Bearden, c. 1978

Oil monotype with paint on paper

Passages, #31

Marsha Goldberg, 1993

Irene, India and Friends at Graduations: Irene Dobbs Jackson at twelve or thirteen in Atlanta. One of the five beautiful Dobbs sisters, including Mattiwilda, the Metropolitan Opera singer. Dr. Jackson is a retired Professor of French and the mother of Atlanta's Mayor Maynard Jackson. The young women on the porch are friends gathering after graduating from high school before going off to college. In the middle is India Amos and top left, Irene Dobbs, all eighteen.

Monoprint with acrylic, glitter and photo transfer on Sekishu rice paper

Freedom March: the artist moving on and leaving Atlanta in 1960, Muhammed Ali (representing black males) and the halls of justice flying through the air and on the march for civil rights.

Monoprint with acrylic, glitter and photo transfer on Sekishu rice paper

Ku Klux Klan: Miles, India, artist Emma and brother Larry, c. 1944, Atlanta. Memory of being pulled over by police marching in an evening Klan march just outside of Atlanta.

Monoprint with acrylic, glitter and photo transfer on Sekishu rice paper

James McCracken Jr., c. 1968

Untitled

Monotype on white wove paper

Georgia Pharmacists: Moses Amos and the Georgia Board of Pharmacists, c. 1914, from an article in a 1928 issue of the Dixie Pharmaceutical Journal Amos was the first licensed black pharmacist in the state of Georgia.

Monoprint with acrylic, glitter and photo transfer on Sekishu rice paper

Hunting: Moses Amos (the artist's grandfather), born 1866; a hunting friend of educator Booker T. Washington.

Monoprint with acrylic, glitter and photo transfer on Sekishu rice paper