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Ellen Handler Spitz, visual arts, Featured in Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition

Honors College Professor of Visual Arts Ellen Handler Spitz is one of the authors represented in a prominent exhibition catalog at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is hosting “The Malcolm X Steles,” an exhibition by
distinguished visual artist, novelist and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud. Riboud divides her time between Paris and Rome and is originally from Philadelphia. The exhibition is the first solo show by a woman artist of African American descent since the museum’s opening in 1876. It features sculptures dedicated to assassinated civil rights leader, Malcolm X.

Dr. Spitz wrote for the exhibition catalog, found here.

Ellen Handler Spitz with artist Barbara Chase-Riboud at opening gala

Ellen Handler Spitz with artist's New York City gallery representative, Noel