The Ragmud Series: Volume 3, Life and Legends of Poindexter Village 1200-1957

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The Ragmud Series: Volume 3, Life and Legends of Poindexter Village 1200-1957

Artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson American, 1940 - 2015

Date1987-2008

DimensionsBook (closed, with slipcase): H: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm); W: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Depth: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm);
Slipcase: H: 13 in. (33 cm); W: 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm); Depth: 8 in. (20.3 cm);
Extended Foldout: H: 2 in. (5.1 cm); W: 25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm); Depth: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm);
Page: H: 9 in. (22.9 cm); W: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)

MediumMixed media: cloth, buttons, beads, thread, hand-made paper, paint.

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

2008.132A-G

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Published ReferencesThe Ragmud Collection: Books by Aminah Robinson, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2010.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Aminah Robinson: Voices that Taught Me How to Sing, Nov. 19, 2010-Feb. 27, 2011.

Toledo Museum of Art, Insight: Contemporary Senstory Works, Nov. 5, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015.

Label TextAminah Robinson’s series of 10 unique handmade books, The Ragmud Collection of Folkquilt Stories, is a labor of love created over a two-decade period and showcasing a tremendous range of techniques: from woodcuts to watercolor and acrylic paintings to fabric collage to sculptural constructions made from “hogmawg” (a homemade concoction of mud, pig grease, dye, sticks, pebbles, glue, and lime, the recipe for which was taught to Robinson by her father). Life and Legends of Poindexter Village includes Robinson’s account of Chipo Village, reportedly founded in the 1200s by Africans and Native Americans. The Blackberry Patch, the post-Civil War center of the African American community in Columbus, Ohio, was later established on the same ground. The Blackberry Patch evolved into Poindexter Village—one of the first federally-funded public housing projects in the United States (and where Robinson grew up). The book is housed in a cloth outer wrap and inner cover, both of them heavy with buttons and beads and featuring flaps and pockets hiding mini-books.