ATLANTA, GA.- Hammonds House Museum will kick off 2025 with the inspiring exhibition Sacred Space: Brandywine Workshop & Archive featuring the artwork of talented printmakers. In the realm of printmaking, there exists a sacred alchemy where art, technique, and collaboration converge to create something truly magical. This exhibition invites guests to experience that magic, and it will be on view from January 24 through June 22, 2025.

Sacred Space: Brandywine Workshop & Archive encourages a personal exploration of spiritual connection and invites viewers to reflect on the ancestral wisdom and memory passed down through generations. The exhibition serves as a portal into the interconnected realms of spirituality, time, space, memory, and culture.

“This exhibition, originally conceived at the Fairfield University Museum, has been reimagined and expanded at the Hammonds House Museum, much like a collaborative printmaking process where layers of creativity and vision are built upon to create something entirely new and dynamic,” states Halima Taha, Hammonds House Museum Artistic Chair. “While the Brandywine Workshop and Archives embraces global influences, this exhibition focuses primarily on American artists of African, Afro-Latino, and Indigenous descent. Here, in this historic West End home, the legacy of BWA intertwines with the cultural mosaic of the South, creating a unique dialogue between past and present.”

"Brandywine Workshop and Archives (BWA) has been a sacred space since 1972, a place where artists and master printers collaborate to transform ideas into works of art that embody voice, color, shadow, and resilience,” says Michele Parchment, Executive Director of BWA.

Artists whose works are featured in the exhibition include Rick Bartow, Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe, Mikel Elam, Sam Gilliam, El Anatsui, Curley Holton, Willie Cole, Xexobia Bailey, Janet Taylor Pickett, Kevin Cole, Michael Harris, James Phillips, and Arturo Lindsey.

The exhibition draws on the rich history of the Brandywine Workshop & Archives (BWA) which were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 by artist Allan Edmunds. As of 2023, the Fairfield University Art Museum in Fairfield, Connecticut is home to a Brandywine “satellite collection,” one of only 18 in the US, including Harvard Art Museums and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Artworks for the Sacred Space: Brandywine Workshop & Archive exhibition are on loan to Hammonds House Museum from the Fairfield University Art Museum.