Tubman African American Museum (2/15/2024)

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Tubman African American Museum (est 1981 by a
Catholic priest, Father Richard Keil; building 2001-2015)

In the expansive atrium, A Journey of Hope Exhibit: Works by Ulysses Marshall (a mixed media artist and native of Georgia):

Dream Deferred (2023)

Going North (2022)

One of the classrooms with djembe drums
and a couple taller conga drums

Another classroom featured displays about
Otis Redding, the King of Soul, who
grew up in Macon, GA and started his
career in the backup band of Little Richard,
who was born in Macon; painting (2019,
by Richard Powell) of Otis Redding

Untold Stories: Macon's African American History:

Rocking chair owned by Jefferson Franklin Long,
who was Georgia's first African American
representative in the US Congress in 1870

Willow wood cotton basket

Adult Girl Scout uniform (c 1950s) like that
worn by Sarah Randolph Bailey, an educator
and community leader who offered scout-
like activities to girls at the YWCA before
African American Girl Scout troops
were permitted in 1945 in Georgia

Whites Only drinking fountain (c 1950s); but because of the
grammar, perhaps this one belonged to a particular White

United States Army Tunic (WWI), like that
worn by Sergeant Jerry B Davis from Macon,
who was the first African American to be
awarded the Legion of Merit Medal

United States Marine Corps Dress Uniform
Jacket (c 1967) like that worn by Sergeant
Rodney M Davis, who was the only
Medal of Honor recipient from Macon

We found Harriet Tubman (2013, by
Fred Ajanogha) on the second floor

Museum library

The Inspirational Exhibition of the Life and Accomplishments of Entertainment Mogul, Tyler Perry:

Costumes from the movie A Madea Homecoming (2022, by
Tyler Perry, the second Black man to open a major film studio)

Movie set for the Madea films

From the Minds of African Americans:

Inventions by African Americans include
improvements in fire extinguishers; 
Thomas J Marshall went on to design the
predecessor of the fire sprinkler system, in 1872

Benjamin Banneker constructed a wooden clock that
was the first striking clock (1750s) built completely
in America, after examining a pocket watch

John A Burr developed a more efficient
push lawn mower in 1899

Lonnie Parker invented the double tank pinch trigger
pump water gun known as the SuperSoaker (1989)

Mural, From Africa to America (1988, 1996, 2009, by Wilfrid Stroud):

Africa Through the 19th Century (1988)

On the left: African Americans in the 20th and 21st
Centuries, and on the right: African American
Achievement in the New Century (2009)

A Mighty Chorus: Black Women Artists from the Tubman Collection

Amazing Grace (no date, by Annie Greene) is made with yarn

Amazing Grace detail

More yarn art: Masai Girls
(1993, by Annie Greene)

The piano Little Richard played at his first gigs at
Miss Ann's Tic Toc Lounge in the 1950s in Macon

The World of Mr Imagination (aka Gregory Wormack who used discarded objects and mixed media, all post-1980):

Untitled (Janus Head Figure)

Untitled (Tall Man)

Tall Man detail

Untitled (Totem Pole with Seven Heads) (KSS)

Totem Pole with Seven Heads detail (KSS)

Untitled (Totem Pole with Five Heads)

Totem Pole with Five Heads detail