Christopher Winks lecture at Godwin-Ternbach Museum

“Styling at the Afro Spot: Black Gods, Black Aesthetics” 

Christopher Winks lecture “Styling at the Afro Spot: Black Gods, Black Aesthetics” in conjunction with exhibition: “Abdias Nascimento: Artist, Activist Author”

Nascimento

Tuesday 13 May at 12:15 pm

Godwin-Ternbach Museum

405 Klapper Hall

65-30 Kissena Boulevard

Flushing, NY 11367

 

 

Professor Christopher Winks (QC Comparative Literature) will lecture on the politics of Afro-Atlantic artistic representation.

ABDIAS NASCIMENTO: ARTIST, ACTIVIST, AUTHOR 
28 April – 21 June 2014

This exhibition, organized by the GTM and John Collins, Director of the Program in Latin America and Latino Studies in collaboration with the Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute (IPEAFRO), displays forty artworks by Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011), a critical political and artistic figure in Brazil and the African diaspora, an activist and founding force in Brazil’s black movement, as well as an author, playwright, senator, and artist.

For more information visit the website here.

 

 

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