American Art in Dialogue with Africa - 7 - Artists Travel to Africa

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This two-day symposium examines the role of Africa and its diaspora in the development of art of the United States, from nineteenth-century portraiture to American modernism; from the Harlem Renaissance to the contemporary art world.

Chair: Tanya Sheehan, Associate Professor of Art, Colby College

Anne-Grit Becker, PhD Candidate in Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
"Toward a Language of Material: Cy Twombly's North African Sketchbooks"

Chika Okeke-Agulu, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Princeton University
"Living in Color: Jacob Lawrence and the Osogbo Experience in the Early 1960s"

Peju Layiwola, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, University of Lagos, Nigeria
"Transcultural Conversations: American and Nigerian Art in Dialogue"
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