Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the founding of its permanent collection and the sixtieth anniversary of the unveiling of the "Art of the Negro" murals with this commemorative volume. Initially conceived with works selected from annual exhibitions, the collection today constitutes a rare and remarkable assemblage of African-American art. "In the Eye of the Muses "tells the story of the Atlanta University Art Annuals held between 1942 and 1970, from which the collection stemmed, cataloging the 887 artists who participated and crucially enhancing our understanding of art by African Americans. In an accompanying essay, Hale Woodruff's "Art of the Negro" mural suite is eloquently explicated by art critic Jerry Cullum. "In the Eye of the Muses" presents a monumental catalogue of a unique collection.

"Dreams, Bright and Dark," curated by Jerry Cullum, features artwork by seven emerging young talents: photographers Jody Fausett (Whitespace, Atlanta), Amanda Palmer, Emily Karcher, and painters Heather Hartmann, Meta Gary, Shana Robbins, and Sonya Jilani. Diverse in subject matter and treatment, yet unified by their dream-like quality, the images in "Dreams" form a narrative, sometimes hopeful and romantic, and at other times more brooding and disturbed. In his poetic essay accompanying the show Cullum ruminates: "The artists in this exhibition are dreamers of personal dreams, not tellers or creators of collective stories, and yet their hopes and wishes are in a code that speaks to us even as it remains most deeply their own. . T]he viewer is invited to engage in the dreams of day as an individual action: to dream, not the myth or story, but the dream itself onward."