Dartmouth Events

LUNCHTIME GALLERY TALK

“Marks and Mark-Making in Afro-diasporic Art”

Tuesday, May 26, 2015
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Hood Museum of Art
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Lectures & Seminars

26 May, Tuesday, 12:30 p.m.
LUNCHTIME GALLERY TALK
“Marks and Mark-Making in Afro-diasporic Art”
Michael Chaney, Associate Professor, Vice Chair, English Department, Dartmouth College
This informal presentation links both the contemporary artwork of Victor Ekpuk and traditional ukara cloths to an unlikely analog in the hybrid production of nineteenth-century slave artisan Dave the Potter. As with the strange writing inscribed on the sides of Dave the Potter’s jars, the coded writing system known as nsibidi opens up our understanding of diasporic art and the principles of communication embodied in it.

For more information, contact:
Alison Palizzolo

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.