Spend an afternoon learning about the wonders of African Art! Jean Borgatti, Consulting Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, will delve in to a different aspect of African Art each month.
In this talk learn about African art during the medieval period of 1000-1600 CE including the Trans-Saharan trade, Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, Benin, Djenné, Lalibela, Great Zimbabwe.
Art note: Detail of the Catalan Atlas showing the 14th century emperor of ancient Mali Mansa Musa said to be the richest man in the history of the world. He carries a gold nugget symbolizing his control of the trade in West African gold to North Africa and southern Europe, particularly the Italian city states.
Register for one or all of the talks in this series:
- Sept. 8 - 21st Century African Photography
- Oct. 13 - African Art in the medieval world--1000-1600 CE
- Nov. 10 - African Art and the West –From Curiosity Cabinet to the Museum and the Development of Modernism (e.g. Picasso and African art)
- Dec. 8 - Learning to Look: Forms and Materials
- Jan. 12 - Case Studies: Art in Cultural Context: Contrasting Cultures – Contrasting Styles -The Dogon of Mali and the Yoruba of Nigeria.
- Feb. 9 - Masquerade – Not Just a Mask On a Wall
- Mar. 9 - Anonymous Doesn't Live Here Anymore--African Artists Traditional and Modern
- Apr. 13 - Likeness and Beyond: Portraiture in Iconic African Art
- May 3 - Shango to Shonibare: African Art in the Black Atlantic World--with a focus on the form, meaning and movement of the Thunder Deity Shango from Africa through the Diaspora (Cuba, Brazil, Haiti), and into the art of the Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights movement in the United States
This series is co-sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library and is in collaboration with the Groton Public Library.
Events in this series will be recorded. A link to the recording will be shared with everyone who registers.