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Spend an afternoon learning about the wonders of African Art! Jean Borgatti, Consulting Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, will delve in to a different aspect of African Art each month.
African ‘traditional’ portraits take many forms, from those based on likeness (Memorial portrait. Owo-Yoruba. Nigeria. Photographed by Justine Cordwell 1949) to those that are highly symbolic (commemorative Mask for Ikor, Okpella, Edo State, Nigeria. 1973)
Register for one or all of the talks in this series:
Sept. 8 - 21st Century African Photography
Oct. 13 - African Art in the medieval world--1000-1600 CE: The Trans-Saharan trade, Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, Benin, Djenné, Lalibela, Great Zimbabwe
Nov. 10 - African Art and the West –From Curiosity Cabinet to the Museum and the Development of Modernism (e.g. Picasso and African art)
Dec. 8 - Learning to Look: Forms and Materials
Jan. 12 - Case Studies: Art in Cultural Context: Contrasting Cultures – Contrasting Styles -The Dogon of Mali and the Yoruba of Nigeria.
Feb. 9 - Masquerade – Not Just a Mask On a Wall
Mar. 9 - Anonymous Doesn't Live Here Anymore--African Artists Traditional and Modern
Apr. 13 - Likeness and Beyond: Portraiture in Iconic African Art
May 3 - Shango to Shonibare: African Art in the Black Atlantic World--with a focus on the form, meaning and movement of the Thunder Deity Shango from Africa through the Diaspora (Cuba, Brazil, Haiti), and into the art of the Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights movement in the United States
This series is co-sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library and is in collaboration with the Groton Public Library.
Events in this series will be recorded. A link to the recording will be shared with everyone who registers.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Library Program--Adults |
