12:00 pm | 10/8/2020 | Live on Zoom | Until 1:30 pm | 10/8/2020
Zoë Strother, Riggio Professor of African Art, Columbia University
A lecture by Professor Zoë Strother
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
October 8, 12-1:30pm, Live on Zoom
This webinar is free and open to the public, all are welcome!
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El Anatsui is one of the most acclaimed of African contemporary artists, whose works feature in an astonishing number of major collections from Berlin to New York to Tokyo. A professor of sculpture, he has worked in a wide range of media and has invented new ones, including shimmering concoctions of found objects, which he describes as “metal cloths” to honor their inspiration in Ghanaian textiles. This talk will trace the arc of his career and explore the disconnect that sometimes exists between the artist’s interpretation of his works and the rhetoric of their display. What does it take for an artist living in Africa to make it internationally?
Professor Zoë Strother, Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University, studies Central and West African art history, with a special focus on the 20th-21st centuries. Her current research is on the history of iconoclasm in Africa.
11:00 am | 10/15/2020 | Live on Zoom | Until 12:30 pm | 10/15/2020
Elizabeth (Betty) Parent, Department of American Indian Studies Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University
A lecture by Elizabeth (Betty) Parent
Department of American Indian Studies
Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University
This webinar is free and open to the public, all are welcome!
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Lecture will be followed by a discussion with panelists:
Patrick Naranjo, Director, American Indian Graduate Program, UC Berkeley
Lisa Pieraccini, Associate Adjunct Professor, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Meredith Vasta, Collections Steward, The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
