Fowler OutSpoken Lecture: Second Skins: Painted Barkcloth from New Guinea and Central Africa

Sunday, April 1, 2012
2pm
Fowler Museum Auditorium
Free program

Speakers: Roy Hamilton, senior curator of Asian and Pacific collections; Enid Schildkrout, curator emerita, American Museum of Natural History and Museum for African Art

On opening day of Second Skins, Fowler curator of African art Gemma Rodrigues offers an overview of the exhibition, followed by talks by Roy Hamilton, the Fowler’s senior curator of Asian and Pacific collections, and Enid Schildkrout, curator emerita, American Museum… Show more of Natural History and Museum for African Art. Hamilton explores how Omie barkcloth came onto the international art market, as well as some of the ideas behind the cloths’ motifs. Next, Schildkrout discusses the barkcloths of the Ituri region, showing how they are part of a larger corpus of regional graphic art, found on surfaces as diverse as wall murals and the human body. After the talk, Fowler curators Gemma Rodrigues and Hamilton will be in the exhibition for informal discussions about the works on view.

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