Africa on My Mind: Contemporary Art, Home and Abroad
The Savannah College of Art and Design will host its third biennial Art History Symposium, Africa on My Mind: Contemporary Art, Home and Abroad, Feb. 26-27, 2010 . The goal of this symposium is to encourage representation by a variety of media and scholarship regarding cultural and geographical areas in Africa and the African Diaspora. Possible topics could include: the role of contemporary African and African Diaspora art in shaping regional, ethnic and individual identity the gendered responses to the colonization of the body and mind contributions of technology and international art fairs to shaping identity and careers questions of interpreting and exhibiting contemporary work pedagogic theories and methods addressing African and African Diaspora art the vitality of African traditions in coastal South Carolina and Georgia The call for papers is open to scholars and graduate students. The editors of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture have agree...