Dr. Aruna D'Souza, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Art CriticDr. D’Souza will lecture on the work of feminist performance and conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady (b. 1934). Editor of O’Grady’s collected essays, Writing in Space, 1973–2019 (Duke University Press, 2020) and curator of her forthcoming retrospective, Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And (New Museum, Spring 2021), Dr. D’Souza explores how O’Grady’s […]
Ulises Carrión: Post/Master, curated by María Paula Varela, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, will be Ulises Carrión’s first public exhibition in the United States. Carrión was a crucial figure in Mail Art, a prominent international movement of the 1970s and 1980s related to Conceptual Art, and in which artists exhibited material they had mailed to […]
Achebe | Baldwin @ 40 - Day 1Thursday, October 22, 2020 from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Achebe | Baldwin @ 40 - Day 2Friday, October 23, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.View the full schedule here On the 40th anniversary of Baldwin and Achebe’s historic encounter at the University of Florida, this two-day […]
In 1988, the celebrated Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic Chinua Achebe, published an essay with the title An Image of Africa, the seminal text is a critique of a certain gaze upon Africa as “the other world.”Qudus Onikeku, the current maker in residence of the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, will be presenting during the […]
Dr. Branden W. Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia UniversityDr. Joseph will lecture on the cross-disciplinary work of the artist and musician Kim Gordon. Focusing upon Gordon’s early critical writings (which Joseph edited in 2014) and hybrid artistic practice with such collaborators as Vikky Alexander and Dan Graham, the talk will […]
Chinua Achebe @90 | #CA90.Event starts at 9:00 a.m. Central Africa time.Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi village, Anambra, Nigeria. He meant different things to different artistes in different disciplines. Thus, we have put together an interdisciplinary exploration of the things he gave his life’s works to as a commemoration of […]
Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Senior Historian and Acting Chief Curator, Director of Research, Publications, and Scholarly Programs, Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThis talk examines the engagement with history and contemporary events by two of the most prominent artists working today, Kara Walker and Carrie Mae Weems. Over the past three decades, each has sited their work […]
Join us for a conversation with Anne Wolf, Community Engagement Manager, City of Gainesville, as she shares her experiences and explores how we might build bridges between institutions and humans. One of our goals is to foster a generative conversation that considers what accessible, respectful, and concrete ways to participate and get involved in the […]
Join the School of Theatre and Dance as they present their annual high-energy production of Agbedidi which has been adapted to a pre-recorded format for socially distanced viewing. Agbedidi celebrates the diaspora and fusion of African dance cultures and offers works featuring both traditional West African Dance and contemporary dance by African American choreographers. You […]
AI for Afrika (AI4A) is a change-oriented consortium of scholars, scientists, artists, data architects, medical doctors, educationalists, entrepreneurs, attorneys, and philosophers from diverse Africana worlds. The group's dynamic cross-fertilization centers on artificial intelligence and radiates out to continental Africa and the Diaspora. AI4A shines a light on the abundance of African talent, contrasting overplayed narratives […]