Lecture: Collaborating Across Continents: Introducing New African Masquerades with Amanda Maples
Masquerade is among the most vibrant, dynamic, and long-standing expressive art forms around the world today. In West Africa, masquerades visualize concepts or ideas that reflect the beauty, experiences, and plurality of humanity itself, and their public performances offer opportunities for humans, and sometimes spirits, to connect to one another. There are hundreds of different kinds of masquerade genres, several of which were given consent to be shared with North American audiences in the internationally traveling exhibition project New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. Join Amanda M. Maples, director of the New African Masquerades project, to learn about the artists, masquerade genres, and reciprocal relationships necessary to gain consent for this dynamic exhibition project.
Amanda M. Maples is Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has taught university courses in African arts and served in curatorial and scholarly capacities across multiple institutions. She holds a PhD in visual studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Masquerade is among the most vibrant, dynamic, and long-standing expressive art forms around the world today. In West Africa, masquerades visualize concepts or ideas that reflect the beauty, experiences, and plurality of humanity itself, and their public performances offer opportunities for humans, and sometimes spirits, to connect to one another. There are hundreds of different kinds of masquerade genres, several of which were given consent to be shared with North American audiences in the internationally traveling exhibition project New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. Join Amanda M. Maples, director of the New African Masquerades project, to learn about the artists, masquerade genres, and reciprocal relationships necessary to gain consent for this dynamic exhibition project.
Amanda M. Maples is Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has taught university courses in African arts and served in curatorial and scholarly capacities across multiple institutions. She holds a PhD in visual studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Lectures and Artist Conversations are made possible by generous support from the Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner lecture fund.
Kimi masquerade ensemble in honor of André Sanou’s Qui Dit Mieux?, 2022 (headpiece by David Sanou in the studio of André Sanou; the maker of the body requests anonymity). Collection of the Fitchburg Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Headshot courtesy Amanda Maples. Photo: Asadulah Rugaravu.
