Talking about Art…

This is a list of public presentations I have made over the years. I add links as I am able to provide the content for free. I want to make as much available as I can so you can keep up with the global art world.

“Health Care Systems in Senegal” Lehigh Valley Health Network, PA. Medical Resident’s Global Health lecture” Oct 18, 2021.

“Workshop/APD Pass the Mic: Global Awareness, 21st century African architects/projects” virtual lecture in support of the National Organization of Minority Architects, March 18, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E50fPJbJqQo

“Art and Activism through Prints and Protest” Artist and founding director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College Curlee Raven Holton and Lehigh University professor Dr. Susan Kart focused their comments on works included in the Museum’s exhibition. 29 October 2020 https://youtu.be/XSbH0x0hhQo

“Wade in the Water: Beyoncé, Mami Wata and Black Feminist Power” Lafayette College Art Gallery, PA. 17 October 2016.

“Moustapha Dimé and Contemporary Senegalese Art” Museum of Modern Art, NY. 29 June 2016.

“Ancient African Art and Civilization” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, as part of the week-long education institute “BlackHistory360” July 18, 2016.

“Islam + Art = The Cosmopolitan Vernacular in the Maghreb” Smith College Conference “Future Fields: ‘Global’ Methodologies and Art of the Middle East” March 31-April 2 2016.

“The Lehigh In Senegal Design/Build Practicum” co-presenter with Mark Orrs, Director of Sustainable Development, Lehigh University. Portland State University, Portland, OR Conference: “The On Sustainability Knowledge Community 12th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability” January 21-23, 2016.

“Dakar/Paris: Moustapha Dimé’s Found Object Sculptures in Transnational Encounters”

CAA Panel February 2014: “ACASA: African Artistic Centers and Distant Metropoles: Intersecting Modernisms of the 20th Century”, Monica b Visonà, Chair.

“Bodies without Borders: New Interpretations of Renee Stout’s Fetish Series and its Relevance for African Art” William R. Scott Brown Bag Series, Lehigh University, December 5, 2013

“Baker Institute: iDeX: Sustainable Innovation: African Artists Get It Right (5×10)” with Bruce Whitehouse. Lehigh University, October 9, 2013.

“Missing the Point of Found Objects: Rethinking the Avant-Garde in Senegal 1977-1997.” Lehigh University, March 25, 2013.

“African Art and the Allan Stone Collection: Central Africa (Kongo, Kuba, Songye)”

In conjunction with the exhibition “Power Incarnate: Allan Stone’s Collection of Sculpture from the Congo” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, June 6 2011.

“New Media in African Art: Wangechi Mutu, Ingrid Mwangi, Robin Rhode” Guest Lecturer for the course The Arts of Central, Southern and Eastern Africa, Isolde Brielmaier, Professor. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 3, 2010.

“Southern Africa: From Rock Painting to Contemporary Projects” Guest Lecturer for the course The Arts of Central, Southern and Eastern Africa, Isolde Brielmaier, Professor. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 26, 2010.

“Kongo Transformed: Influences on New World Cultures and Arts” Guest Lecturer for the course The Arts of Central, Southern and Eastern Africa, Isolde Brielmaier, Professor. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 29, 2010.

“Trendy, Tourist Art or Trash? The Phenomenon of Recycling in Contemporary African Art”

  • Faculty on the Road, Sarah Lawrence College Dallas and Houston, TX, April 2-3, 2011
  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, February 5, 2009.

“Found Object Art in African Contexts: Moustapha Dimé and the Récupération Revolution in Senegal” Keynote Speaker at the Art History Program 21st Annual Senior Symposium, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, April 24, 2010.

“Melting Pot: Gold in the Côte d’Ivoire and Beyond” In conjunction with the exhibition “West African Gold Ornaments from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, September 30, 2009.

“Bodies without Boundaries: New Interpretations of Renée Stout’s Fetish Series and its Relevance for African Art” Public Lecture, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, April 7, 2008.

“Imaging Islam: Tradition and Modernity in 20th Century Art and Architecture” Norman and Suzanne Hascoe Lecture Series, Bruce Museum, Greenwich CT, October 4, 2007.

“Dakar – The New Venice? The Dak’Art Biennials of 2004 and 2006” Liberal Arts Luncheon Series, Smith College, Northampton, MA, October 5, 2006.

“The Elemental Ana Mendieta: Earth, Fire and Orisha” Latino Culture House – La Casa, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, December 2, 2005.

“Sculpting more than Somebody: Moustapha Dimé and Renée Stout on the Body and Identity in “African” Art” Panel chaired by Babatunde Lawal, “Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Similarities and Differences in Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art.” African Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 17-20, 2005.

“Contemporary African Art” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, November 12, 2004

“Renée Stout, Sokari Douglas Camp, and the Diasporic Female Body” Guest Lecturer for the course Women and Art: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives, Meredith Davis, Instructor. Barnard College, New York, April 28th, 2004.

“Beyond the Color of Race in Art” 24th Annual Conference of The New York African Studies Association (NYASA), State University of New York, Cortland, New York, April 28, 2000.

“African Influences on 19th and early 20th Century Western Culture” African Art Lecture Series, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT, March 1998.

  • Organized/chaired

Convener/Chair. “Power Play: Black Women’s Bodies in Contemporary Projects” panel for the 17th Triennial Conference of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), Accra Ghana, August 10, 2017. Panelists: Siona Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center), Lanisa Kitchiner (Smithsonian Museum for African Art), Mahlot Sansosa (visual artist), Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum (Illinois State U.)

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