Instructor: Julie Crooks
8 weeks
Wednesdays: 6:30 – 8:30 pm, October 7 - November 25
$312 General public / $248 members
GST will be applied to course fees.
This course is an introduction to African art – a continent of vast cultural wealth and diversity. Considering works chronologically, the sessions will begin with a look the Frum collection and celebrate the great sculptural traditions of sub-Saharan west and central Africa. Learn about the performance contexts in which many of these pieces were first seen and used. Discover contemporary African artists and artists of African descent working in the diaspora. Through in-class presentations and discussions in the galleries we will explore the field of African visual culture.
Julie Crooks is a PhD candidate, in the Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her main research interests are the visual culture of Africa and of the African diaspora. She is an independent curator and has taught classes in African art and the African diaspora at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and at York University.
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