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EXH: Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity @ Fitchburg Art Museum
AKWAABA! means welcome — and the Fitchburg Art Museum welcomes you to the opening celebration of the exhibit Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity on April 15, 2012. The exhibit is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and this version of the exhibit by the Fowler at UCLA.
Massachusetts boasts a large Ghanaian community, in the thousands, and our honorary chair is Nana Yaw Ampong II, Wabiri Asonahene of Breman Asikuma (currently resident in Westminster, MA). Opening festivities include an Afternoon Dance Party hosted by Gordon Halm of Lowell with cultural performances from traditional to contemporary, an African market, a weaving demonstration by Edward Brempong (currently resident in Worcester) and an “Africa Today” Forum featuring Ambassador Thomas Hull (Sierra Leone 2004-2007) as keynote speaker along with other distinguished guests.
On April 29, Professor Emeritus (University of Calgary) Daniel Mato
will give a lecture “Woven Words” on the symbolism of Kente and other Akan art forms followed by
a performance of traditional drumming and dance by Nani Agbeli and the
Agbekor Ensemble (associated with Tufts University).
On May 13, we will be having an African fashion show and family activities day.
Please share this information with friends, and please join us. The exhibit will run through June 3.
The Fitchburg Art Museum is open from 12-4 Wednesday-Friday, 11-5 Saturday and Sunday.
On the first Thursday of each month we are open until 8pm and admission is free after 4:00.
Video of the Week: The (S) Files
This week’s video feature is a bumper package of 9 short videos each relating to El Museo del Barrio’s 2011 Bienal: The (S) Files. The exhibition ran from June 2011 – January 2012 in numerous venues across New York. Although the exhibition has now ended it leaves behind this great online resource of interviews with the curators and artists involved – and a bit of funky music thrown in too.
The first video introduces the concepts and rationale behind the 2011 bienal theme of the street and features short interviews with curators: Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad Fombella, and Elvis Fuentes.
“El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 is El Museo del Barrio’s sixth biennial of the most innovative, cutting-edge art created by Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists currently working in the greater New York area. This year’s edition spreads all over the city, showcasing a record 75 emerging artists in seven different…
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Exhibition: ‘Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story’ at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Exhibition dates: 29th October 2011 – 7th April 2012
Teenie Harris (American, 1908-1998)
Construction site with bulldozer, two men, including one in front holding child, large tank with hose, and car on right, possibly in construction site of Belmar Gardens
c. 1954
Gelatin silver print
© Carnegie Museum of Art
What an astonishing photographer this man was. These photographs are a revelation. African American artist Charles “Teenie” Harris, captured “the essence of daily African-American life in the 20th century. For more than 40 years, Harris – as lead photographer of the influential Pittsburgh Courier newspaper – took almost 80,000 pictures of people from all walks: presidents, housewives, sports stars, babies, civil rights leaders and even cross-dressing drag queens.”
While Harris is most famous for depicting an innovative and thriving black urban community – daily life in Pittsburgh’s Hill District – it is the less figurative, more abstract urban landscape…
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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: VISIONS OF VICTORY AT THE WOLFSONIAN
Today’s blog post comes to you courtesy of Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn. Rochelle has been processing and cataloguing recent additions to the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Wolfsonian, and has also been selecting objects and writing interpretative text for some of the Spanish-American War materials that will be featured in an exhibit on the fifth floor gallery. In the course of culling items and condensing the interpretative text down to very concise labels, lots of information gets left out. Rather than see that exhaustive research go to waste, we thought that we would share some of it with you, as a teaser to entice you to visit the show which will be up in time for the 110th anniversary of Cuban Independence celebrated in Miami on May 20th, 2012.
My dear friend Isis took a harrowing boat ride from Cuba to the United States at…
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