COLUMBUS, SC.- The Columbus Museum of Art announced the national tour of Aminah Robinson: Journeys Home, a Visual Memoir, an exhibition that celebrates the prolific life and work of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (1940–2015). This posthumous, nationally touring exhibition will begin at the Springfield Museum of Art in Springfield, Ohio from February 1–July 13, 2025, before traveling to The Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey from October 16, 2025–March 1, 2026, and the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama from March 26, 2026–January 9, 2027. Two remaining venues will be announced later in the year and the full tour will run through 2028.

Supported by the Art Bridges Foundation, Aminah Robinson: Journeys Home, a Visual Memoir brings together a selection of profound artworks and writing from Robinson's staggering seven-decade practice, from 1948 to 2015, in a visual memoir of the artist’s life and a compelling tableau of the African American experience. In her own words, Aminah Robinson made it her artistic mission “to celebrate the everyday lives of Black people and their endurance through centuries of injustice.” The MacArthur Award recipient was also a researcher, historian, poet, author, illustrator, composer, and teacher who used her vast talents in the preservation of community, culture, and history with the stories she told.

The traveling exhibition is organized into four thematic sections—Childhood Home, Ancestral Home, Spiritual Home, and Journeys Home—inviting visitors into an intimate experience of Robinson’s vibrant world of storytelling through mixed media. Presenting 60 of Robinson’s multifaceted drawings, prints, paintings, textiles, collages, “hogmawg” sculptures, and monumental “RagGonNon” tapestries in varied ways, the exhibition will take viewers on a journey through Robinson’s life, her deep historical research, and the communities she called home.

Growing up in a segregated midwestern city, as a Black female artist and single mother, Aminah’s multifaceted portrayals of neighborhood figures, childhood memories, and her challenges became her means to preserve memory, uplift community, and give voice to the past. Chronicling her experiences and the lives around her, Robinson’s oeuvre extends beyond her life growing up in Columbus, retracing her ancestry in Angola, Africa, before enslavement. Then, her exploration of identity extended to her travels across Africa, the Middle East, and South America. Her intimate mixed-media works continuously recount the universality of human experiences, honoring the enduring strength of community across time and place.

Upon her death in 2015, Robinson bequeathed all her art, writing, and personal effects, including her home studio in Columbus, to CMA, reflecting the close relationship she maintained with her hometown museum. Journeys Home is Robinson’s first major museum presentation since CMA’s critically acclaimed exhibition Raggin’ On: The Art of Aminah Robinson’s House and Journals in 2020. With this new traveling exhibition, CMA honors and builds upon the extraordinary legacy Robinson left behind, to enrich the resonant dialogue and expand the reach of her work, in ways that would not be possible alone.

“Aminah Robinson holds a central place within our museum and our community in Columbus, and the nationally touring Journeys Home exhibition will be integral to our work as stewards of her profound legacy,” said Brooke A. Minto, Executive Director and CEO at CMA. “We are thrilled to bring Robinson’s art to new audiences nationwide, providing an opportunity for engagement with the ideas and subjects she championed throughout her life. We look forward to collaborating with our distinguished partner institutions to continue to honor Robinson’s work and support her legacy to ‘Rag on and on and on.’”