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Beginning May 27, we will be closed as part of Oberlin College’s Sustainable Infrastructure Program.
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Matthew Francis Rarey, Assistant Professor of Art History, gives a talk on the exhibition Afterlives of the Black Atlantic, which he co-curated with Andrea Gyorody, the Ellen Johnson '33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the AMAM. While the relationships between slavery and artistic production remain a vibrant area of research, African artists' role in this area remains woefully understudied. By focusing specifically on the African works included in the exhibition, Rarey details how these objects illuminate African societies' diverse responses to the cultural upheaval caused by the transatlantic slave trade.
Learn more about the AMAM’s current exhibition "Afterlives of the Black Atlantic" in a talk by co-curator Matthew Francis Rarey, assistant professor of art history at Oberlin College. Rarey discusses African works in the exhibition that illuminate the diverse responses of African societies to cultural upheaval in the wake of the transatlantic slave trade.
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