A Visit To My House: A Private and Public Narrative, Thirty Years of Art by Curlee Raven Holton

Tubman Museum will host a special event as part of the 2012 Pan-African Festival of Georgia.The Museum will host a reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition entitled A Visit To My House: A Private and Public Narrative, Thirty Years of Art by Curlee Raven Holton. This exhibition features works executed in a variety of media, all chosen from among works completed by the artist over the last thirty years.

Curlee Raven Holton is an exhibiting artist, curator and distinguished educator. He studied drawing and painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He went on to earn an MFA degree, with honors, in painting and printmaking from Kent State University in Ohio. Since completing his studies, Holton has successfully maintained a dual career as an educator and a professional exhibiting artist. 

Though a master printmaker, Holton routinely works in a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting and book-making. Since 1982 the artist has participated in countless group exhibitions, and more than fifty one-person shows domestically and abroad. His works are in many prestigious public and private collections, and his work has been reviewed in more than forty different publications.

Since 1991 Holton has been the David and Linda Roth Professor of Art at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches art and African American history. He has lectured and written extensively about African American art and artists. Perhaps most notably, he is the founding Director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute. EPI was founded in 1996 to promote research and experimentation with in the medium of printmaking. Since its founding the Institute has produced 100 print editions by 80 different artists. Works produced at EPI have been collected by prestigious museums throughout the United States. A Visit to My House is the second collaboration between the Tubman Museum, Curlee Holton and the EPI. He participated in an exhibition of works from the collection of EPI that hung in the Tubman Museum in 2011.