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Offer from the MFA

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is offering one free admission to conference attendees who visit the Museum between Thursday 3/22 and Monday 3 To receive free admission, attendees should go to the ticketing desks at the Huntington Avenue or…

Testimonial: Black Portraiture(s) Experience

Dear Dr. Willis, What a pleasure running into you at the Sunday market in Rosebank and formally meeting for the first time. Thank you again for being a force in making the conference happen. This was my first time attending the Black…

Exhibition May 9 – June 5, 2017 | Havana: Significations

Significations frames contemporary imaginations of Africa as a subject of conversation among artists from all over the Atlantic World. It extends a previous exhibition ReSignifications, that opened in Florence, Italy, in 2015. Significations builds on the curatorial narrative of ReSignifications by staging works in which African and African…

Fellowships in the Stuart A. Rose Library

Friends:  I had a lovely time at the conference in Johannesburg.  I was inspired by the presentations and various conversations with new colleagues and friends.  The experience has definitely made me realize the need to collaborate more broadly with curators,…

Black Portraiture[s] III In The Press

Press “On the “A” w/Souleo: Global Politics and Art Converge in Johannesburg Conference”. The Huffington Post, 22 November 2016,   “Global Art Leaders Convene in Johannesburg to Discuss the Black Body” Artsy, 21 November 2016, “Hip-hop music: the soundtrack to the…

A Message to BPIII Attendees

Dear ​Participants, I would like to thank you​ ​all​ ​for attending​ and contributing to the success of​ BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures in ​Johannesburg, ​South Africa this past week. The primary goal of the conference was…

Exhibition – Africans In America

Concurrent to Black Portraiture[s] III is the exhibition Africans in America, conceptualized and curated by artist Hank Willis Thomas and Liza Essers. Africans in America aims to speak to the flows, exchanges and continuities between the continent of Africa and…