Spend one Sunday afternoon learning the wonders of African Art! Jean Borgatti, Consulting Curator of Global Africa, First Peoples - North America and Oceania at the Fitchburg Art Museum, will delve in to a different aspect of African Art each month! This series of talks is meant as an introduction to African Art, its variety of forms, the depth of its history, and how it became an important player first in Western culture and continues to be important in a global world. A reading list will be available for anyone who wants to delve more deeply into any one topic. Jean Borgatti, our speaker, will invite participants to online workspace where she will post additional images, articles, and links to videoclips for anyone interested. 

For those interested in additional resources from the get-go, Jean suggests Christopher Spring’s African Art in Detail (2010), full of wonderful illustrations from the collections of the British Museum and a very accessible, readable text. Chris Spring served as a curator at the BM from 1987 until his retirement in 2018. I might also suggest Suzanne Blier’s book The History of African Art (2023). Suzanne Blier is a distinguished scholar and professor of art history at Harvard University. This is a new textbook based on many years of research, writing and teaching. Both are available on Amazon.

This month- CLICK HERE to register on zoom and receive the link.

Anonymous Doesn't Live Here Anymore--African Artists Traditional and Modern

Lawrence Ajanaku photographed at the inaugural performance of the Okakagbe costumes he had made – 1973. Sokari Douglas Camp, Anglo-Nigerian artist with welded metal sculptures, The Drummers, in the collection of the Fitchburg Art Museum.