On This Spot Newsletter — February 2025

On This Spot tells the stories of a diverse group of women artists through short-form documentaries. Join us as we put women artists on the map.

Video Spotlight – Hatch-Billops Salon

A Salon to Showcase Black Artists



Camille Billops, the remarkable artist, and her husband James V. Hatch turned their 4,000-square-foot loft into an invitation-only salon to celebrate the work of Black artists. “We invited everybody here: friends, students and white folks, gallerists and curators,” says Billops. 

Spot Reads

Further reading on Spot artists

The Hatch-Billops Journal of Black American Cultural History at Emory University

Interviews with more than 1,500 artists were collected and published in an annual journal, Artist and Influence: The Journal of Black American Cultural History.

The donation of the Hatch-Billops Collection was an inaugural event in the growth of the library at Emory University's expansion of African American collections. It is regarded as one of the most distinguished repositories of material relating to African American cultural arts.

What's Happening

Events and exhibitions related to Spot artists

Lecture and Webinar with Village Preservation

From Joan Mitchell to the Guerilla Girls: 20th Century Downtown Women Artists with Village Preservation and On This Spot

Thursday, February 20th, at 6:00pm

To help celebrate Joan Mitchell's centennial and shine a light on other boundary-breaking women artists, both known and unknown, who have been at the forefront of the New York art scene we are joined by On This Spot NYC.

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