African Art Series: African Art and the West (via Zoom)
Sunday, November 102:30—4:00 PMZoomBigelow Free Public Library54 Walnut St., Clinton, MA, 01510
Spend a Sunday afternoon learning the wonders of African Art! Jean Borgatti, Consulting Curator of Global Africa, First Peoples - North America and Oceania at the Fitchburg Art Museum, will delve in to a different aspect of African Art each month!
Today's talk: From Curiosity Cabinet to the Museum and the Development of Modernism (e.g. Picasso and African art)
Series schedule:
September 8: 21st Century African Photography
October 13: African Art in the medieval world--1000-1600 CE
November 10: African Art and the West
December 8: Learning to Look: Forms and Materials
January 12: Case Studies: Art in Cultural Context
February 9: Masquerade
March 9: Anonymous Doesn't Live Here Anymore--African Artists Traditional and Modern
April 13: Likeness and Beyond: Portraiture in Iconic African Art
May 3: Shango to Shonibare: African Art in the Black Atlantic World