On Thursday, June 6 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, the annual meeting of the Columbia Museum of Art’s Friends of African American Art & Culture will feature a celebration of life for Marjorie Brittain Hammock (1936-2024), a treasured member of the Columbia art community.
“Marjorie Hammock was a consequential human being,” said Nikky Finney, Director of The Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center. “Whatever she put her shoulder to the wheel of churned into place. The Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center owes much to her artistic insight and
persistence. She will always be with us.”
A founding board member and dear friend of The Finney Center, Marjorie Hammock was a passionate supporter and defender of the arts and remained active in civil rights and politics her entire adult life.
Marjorie Hammock was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 24, 1936 and grew up in Connecticut. Her parents moved North as part of the Great Migration. In 1962, Hammock moved to New York and joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and became more involved in civil rights organizing. Hammock worked
on Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, who was the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
In the 1970s, Hammock moved to South Carolina and served as the Executive Director of the South Carolina chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Hammock served as the Chief of Social Work Service for the Department of Corrections and Field Coordinator in the Department of Social Work at Benedict College.
This is a free event, but registration is required. Visit Tickets.ColumbiaMuseum.org to register.
