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Arts Council of the African Studies Association

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Exhibitions

New and Upcoming Openings

Fisk University Galleries, African Modernism in America, October 7, 2022 – February 11, 2023

Saltire Gallerie, invitation for Artist representation/consignment for African art collection to open mid-2024

Art Institute of Chicago, The Language of Beauty in African Art, November 20, 2022 – February 27, 2023

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Lhola Amira: Facing the Future, December 17, 2022 – December 3, 2023

President Lincoln’s Cottage, Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America, January 17,  2023

North Carolina Museum of Art, Powers Concealed: Egúngúns from Africa and America, October 15, 2022-January 29, 2023

Dallas Museum of Art, Not Visible to the Naked Eye: Inside a Senufo Helmet Mask, November 23, 2019-June 19, 2022

Dallas Museum of Art, Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, December 20, 2020-October 24, 2021

MARKK, Hey Hamburg! Do you know Duala Manga Bell?, March 31, 2021-December 31, 2022

Jelosimi Art Centre, Jélésinmi, online May 17-June 17, 2021

The Argyll Collection, Dar to Dunoon: Modern African Art from the Argyll Collection, May 21-June 13, 2021

Middelheim Museum, Congoville, May 29-October 3, 2021

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s, opening July 1, 2021

Kent State University Museum, Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair, September 10, 2021-August 7, 2022

Dallas Museum of Art, Bamana Mud Cloth From Mali to the World, November 13, 2021-December 4, 2022

 


Ongoing

Fisk University Galleries, African Modernism in America

Art Institute of Chicago, The Language of Beauty in African Art

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Lhola Amira: Facing the Future

North Carolina Museum of Art, Powers Concealed: Egúngúns from Africa and America

North Carolina Museum of Art, Permanent reinstallation of African art

National Museum of Benin, Nigeria, Photographer Chief S. O. Alonge

National Museum of African Art, Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts 

The Fitchburg Art Museum, Moving Objects: African and Oceanic Art from the FAM Collection

Musée du quai Branly, Africa

Newark Museum, Arts of Global Africa

Museum Fünf Kontinente, Lebendige Traditionen, Kreative Gegenwart: Kunst aus Afrika

About ACASA

ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, promotes greater understanding of African material and expressive culture in all its many forms, and encourages contact and collaboration with African and Diaspora artists and scholars.

Obituaries

Here you can find the obituaries for colleagues who unfortunately left us much too early.

 

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