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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Davis Museum galleries
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Teacher's Workshop |
Learn about Visual Thinking Strategies, a methodology to connect art and literacy. Enjoy gallery discussion with colleagues while exploring a tool for accessing art in the classroom. 2 PDP’s. RSVP, required, to Alexa Miller. |
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Collins Cinema
7:00pm
Film Series |
Film Series: Black Woman's Bodies in Africa
Apolline Traore, Kounandi, 2004.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Collins Cinema
7:00pm
Film Series |
Film Series: Black Woman's Bodies in Africa
Idrissou Mora Kpai, Si-Gueriki (The Queen Mother), 2002. |
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Location TBD
9:00am - 5:30pm
Symposium |
Black Womanhood Symposium:
Scholars will discuss cultural identity, aesthetics, politics, and religion. Sessions will include perspectives by scholars from the areas of sociology, Africana studies— including the religions of Africa and the African Diaspora—as well as artists, art historians, and curators on visual arts and film. Chairing the symposium from Wellesley College are Professor Filomina Steady and Assistant Professor Pashington Obeng, Africana Studies Department; discussant is Visiting Instructor Genevieve Hyacinthe, Art Department; and speakers include Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York; Professor Stanlie M. James, Director African & African American Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Arizona State University; artist Renée Cox, New York; and guest curator Barbara Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Check back in a few days for the symposium registration form. |
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Chandler Gallery
5:30pm
Performance |
In their performance, a group of New York and Boston based artists including Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Dineo Bopape, incorporate a sound component and address the Black Womanhood exhibition. In conjunction with the performance artists, Visiting Instructor Genevieve Hyacinthe will teach a class in the Art Department/Africana Studies (ARTH 316); guest artists are invited to her class. |
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Collins Cinema
6:00pm
Artist's Talk
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Ellen Zweig’s work ranges from poetry to performance art,
installation to interactive webbased art. HEAP, her series of videos currently on view at the Davis Museum, explores the cultural encounters that are the result of travel by portraying China through Western eyes. Funded by the E. Franklin Robbins Art Museum Fund and and Wellesley College Friends of Art.
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