Description | Closing reception + "Celebration of Life": Friday, November 22, 6:30–8:30pm NOTE: exhibition extended through Wednesday, November 27. Jacob Lawrence Gallery hours are Tuesday–Friday, 10am–5pm, and Saturday, 1–5pm. MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora presents ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering.The visual association of altars are often akin to spiritual pedestals, sites where rituals are enacted, places of sacrificial endowment. Altars are often erected to pay homage to an ancestor or to honor (a) God or a saint. This exhibition takes the altar out of its religious context and interrogates photography as a practice containing the same attributes as altars. The images presented in this exhibition examine several traditions that have originated in and/or are practiced on the African continent and throughout the world. Artists Deborah Jack, Di-Andre Caprice Davis, Jamila Clarke, Maureen Douabou, Marilù Mapengo Namoda, Petrona Morrison, Tiffany Smith, Valda Nogueira Curators Berette Macaulay, Delphine Fawundu, Laylah Barrayn |
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