LECTURE: DR. SIDNEY KASFIR

Dr. Sidney Kasfir, Professor of African Art History, Emory University

In conjunction with the exhibition Behind the Mask: African Art from the Ellen Hobbs Collection and the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University, Athens (Feb 8- May 10, 2008) the JCSM invites you to attend a lecture by Dr. Sidney Kasfir.

Kasfir, who is a Professor of African Art History at Emory University, will give a lecture Thursday March 6 at 4:00. Her goal is to broaden the understanding of the exhibition.

Kasfir received a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1979. Her research interests include art, ritual and representation, masking, colonial and postcolonial urban art, West and East Africa. Kasfir also has several publications, some of which include West African Masks and Cultural Systems, Contemporary African Art and the forthcoming African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity.

Contributed by Mandy Walters