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Exhibiting Africa: State of the Field in African Art and the Diaspora.
A research symposium presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.
Speakers:
Discussant: Dr. Silvia Forni joined the Fowler Museum as Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director in December 2022. Before moving to Los Angeles, she served as Senior Curator of Global Africa and Deputy Vice President of the Department of Art and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Antawan I. Byrd, PhD, is assistant professor of art history at Northwestern University and an associate curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tobias Wofford is an associate professor of art history. His research explores the meeting of globalization and identity in the art of the African Diaspora since the 1950s, as well as concepts of diversity and multiculturalism in art of the US.
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Hosted by Bard Graduate Center and the Brooklyn Museum, this timely symposium explored present-day perspectives on the display of the arts and material culture of Africa and the Diaspora, examines its historiography in Western cultural institutions, and considers directions for its future.
Exhibiting Africa: State of the Field in African Art and the Diaspora.
A research symposium presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.
Speakers:
Discussant: Dr. Silvia Forni joined the Fowler Museum as Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director in December 2022. Before moving to Los Angeles, she served as Senior Curator of Global Africa and Deputy Vice President of the Department of Art and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Antawan I. Byrd, PhD, is assistant professor of art history at Northwestern University and an associate curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tobias Wofford is an associate professor of art history. His research explores the meeting of globalization and identity in the art of the African Diaspora since the 1950s, as well as concepts of diversity and multiculturalism in art of the US.
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Hosted by Bard Graduate Center and the Brooklyn Museum, this timely symposium explored present-day perspectives on the display of the arts and material culture of Africa and the Diaspora, examines its historiography in Western cultural institutions, and considers directions for its future.
