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"There has long been a call for the expansion of the subject area to include Africa and the Diaspora..."
Meet Associate Professor Drew Thompson. Drew's teaching and research draws upon his wide range of interests in African, African-American, and Black Diaspora visual and material culture, the history of photography, Black modernism, and museums as (de-)colonial spaces. In preparation for the BGC Gallery's upcoming exhibition "Peace, Power, & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa" which will open in September 2023, Drew is currently teaching a course titled "Exhibiting 'Africa'" exploring the history of collecting and exhibiting African material culture and decorative arts in Western museum institutions from the late nineteenth century through recent times.
"There has long been a call for the expansion of the subject area to include Africa and the Diaspora..."
Meet Associate Professor Drew Thompson. Drew's teaching and research draws upon his wide range of interests in African, African-American, and Black Diaspora visual and material culture, the history of photography, Black modernism, and museums as (de-)colonial spaces. In preparation for the BGC Gallery's upcoming exhibition "Peace, Power, & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa" which will open in September 2023, Drew is currently teaching a course titled "Exhibiting 'Africa'" exploring the history of collecting and exhibiting African material culture and decorative arts in Western museum institutions from the late nineteenth century through recent times.
