Talladega College Enters Historic Partnership with Amistad Murals
Talladega College is pleased to announce a historic partnership that will support the success of the institution for generations to come and create opportunities for audiences around the world to engage with extraordinary works of art by the American artist Hale A. Woodruff. Four of the six monumental paintings by Woodruff commissioned by Talladega College in the late 1930s have been acquired by esteemed American arts institutions who are committed to bringing visibility to the murals and celebrating their connection to Alabama’s first private Historically Black College.
Toledo Museum of Art has acquired The Underground Railroad; Art Bridges Foundation and Terra Foundation for American Art have jointly acquired three paintings that depict the Amistad uprising and its aftermath; and two paintings capturing the founding of Talladega and the building of the school’s Savery Library will continue to be owned by the College and remain on campus. This unprecedented coalition has formed a strategic partnership that will jointly steward the paintings and maintain their connection to Talladega, including reuniting all six murals at the College on an agreed upon schedule.