This publication was published to accompany 'The Evolution of Mimi', an original exhibition organised by the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (25 January–19 May 2018). The exhibition featured more than fifty collages, paintings, and hand-painted serigraphs by African-American artist Deborah Roberts.
The catalogue was edited by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, PhD (director of Spelman College Museum of Fine Art) and features contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, PhD; Erin J. Gilbert; Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD; Antwaun Sargent; and Franklin Sirmans; a foreword by Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD, and an interview between Deborah Roberts and Valerie Cassel Oliver.