The Ragmud Series: Volume 1, Folklife in Poindexter Village 1940–1957

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The Ragmud Series: Volume 1, Folklife in Poindexter Village 1940–1957

Artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson American, 1940 - 2015

Date1987-2008

DimensionsH: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm); W: 10 in. (25.4 cm); Depth: 8 in. (20.3 cm)

MediumBook and case: mixed media

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds given by Rita B. Kern and Dorothy Mackenzie Price, with additional support from the artist and Hammond Harkins Gallery, and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Levis, by exchange

Object number

2007.99A-K

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Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Aminah Robinson: Voices that Taught Me How to Sing, November 19, 2010-February 27, 2011, checklist, book 1, book 2, and case, (catalog title: The Ragmud Collection: Books by Aminah Robinson at the Toledo Museum of Art).Label TextIn her 10 unique handmade books, The Ragmud Collection of Folkquilt Stories, Aminah Robinson explores the history of her family, of her community, and of African Americans. The series comprises a labor of love created over a two-decade period and showcases a tremendous range of techniques: from black and white woodcuts to bright watercolor and acrylic paintings to fabric collage. The books also contain various sculptural elements, hidden mini-books, removable figures, music boxes, and other unexpected discoveries and small details that delight. In Folklife in Poindexter Village Robinson summarizes all the major influences on her life and work, including ancestral events such as the Middle Passage from Africa to America, family history in the slave communities of the South, and the history of the central Ohio area that eventually became the public housing community Poindexter Village in Columbus.