Panel Discussion: Collecting and Exhibiting Modern African Art

As part of the festivities for the opening of the "African Modernism in America" exhibition on March 10, 2023, exhibition co-curators Perrin Lathrop, assistant curator of African art at the Princeton University Art Museum, and Jamaal Sheats, gallery director and curator, and professor of art at Fisk University, are joined by Bukky Gbadegesin, associate professor of art history at Saint Louis University, for a discussion exploring histories of collecting and displaying modern African art in the United States, including the 1961 landmark exhibition "Art from Africa of Our Time," organized by the Harmon Foundation, and the role of Fisk University in exhibiting African artists of the mid-twentieth century.
Organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Fisk University Galleries, "African Modernism in America" is on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis March 10-August 6, 2023.

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