Aminah robinson presidential suite

Columbus, Ohio artist, and MacArthur Genius grant winner Aminah Robinson said that she received a vision from God to create the art for Aminah’s Presidential Suite, one of the last major bodies of work she produced before her death in 2015.

Aminah’s Presidential Suite,now on view at Columbus Museum of Art is a celebration of the election of President Barack Obama. The work embodies the hopefulness in the hearts of Americans, who like Aminah, were proud to witness the election of the country’s first African-American president.

Robinson began by researching the lives of the Obamas.

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She did not have a computer, but she read the Columbus Dispatch every day from cover to cover and the New York Times on the weekends. She watched the news on television every day. Once she did the research she determined her subject matter and she began working