The UNM Art Museum hosts the African Art Speaker Series, “Visual Cultures of the African World: Tradition, Transculturation, and Post-Colonialism,” a series of three presentations during the spring semester. The first speaker is Henry J. Drewal, Evue Bascomb Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presenting, “Whirling Return of the Ancestors and Gods: Yoruba Performance Arts," on Thursday, March 5, 5:30 p.m.
The second installment features Paul Barrett Niell, assistant professor, Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, presenting, “The Ceiba Tree in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana: An Afro-Cuban Signifier in Colonial Urban Space,” on Thursday, March 26, 5:30 p.m.
The series concludes on Thursday, May 7, 5:30 p.m. with Moyosore Okediji, associate professor, University of Texas at Austin, presenting “The End of Freedom: Meaninglessness in Post-Colonial African Art.”
This speaker series, funded by the UNM Department of Art and Art History was organized by Assistant Professor Ray Hernandez-Duran as an extension of Art History 429.004: Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African Diaspora.