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Popular Culture and the Arts in Africa
Organizers
Lynn Thomas (African Studies) Project Overview
This speaker, workshop, and film series will build on the research and teaching interests of a number of Africanist faculty and graduate students at the University of Washington, and will introduce African material and perspectives into campus and community conversation on contemporary music, visual media, and graphic arts. It will include five events: a panel discussion a lecture by the Nigerian painter Obiora Udechukwu; a library exhibit and workshop on African comics and graphic novels with Okwui Enzewor; a workshop on popular culture in Africa with Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbemb; and a year-long film series. African Studies Program Website  Artwork by Yadesa Bojia Events
Popular Culture Workshop Obiora Udechukwu (Fine Arts, St. Lawrence University), "If You Call Your Plate a Potsherd...' The Postcolonial Artist and Tradition" "Highly Opinionated Hot Picks in Contemporary African Art" Forum Join Isolde Brielmaier and Trevor Schoonmaker, two compelling thinkers, who actively contribute to new definitions of African visual expression, as they take the temperature of contemporary African art. This program is co-presented by the African Studies Program, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington together with the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Public Programs Department and the SAM African Arts Council. Featuring Isolde Brielmaier and Trevor Schoonmaker at Seattle Art Museum. Shaheen Ariefdien, "Cape Flats Up-Rocking: On Race, Resistance and Rap in South Africa." African Comics Workshop
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