HWC President's Gallery & Permanent Art Collection
The President's Gallery is a free exhibition space within Harold Washington College, committed to showing work from both the HWC community and Chicago artists.
MessageBorn in Philadelphia and raised on Chicago’s south side, Godfrey received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin. Her artwork is included in many private, corporate, and museum collections and has been exhibited throughout North America.
Among her more notable exhibitions are one-woman exhibits at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, the Organization of American States in Washington, DC, and the Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. Her work was presented with that of Georgia O’Keefe and Marc Chagall at an exhibit of 20th Century Flower Paintings at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
More recently, Winnie has been working on a series of figurative paintings of highland indigenous Mayans in Guatemala. Each canvas depicts a different village and costume. There are currently 14 life-size oils that are shown in sequence and called “Mayan Procession.” The exhibit includes actual textiles, photos, and other educational material, as well as an “Alfombra” (Carpet) made of colored sawdust. It has been exceptionally well received at various museums and educational institutions throughout the country.
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