Adama Delphine Fawundu: Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 6 PM - 7 PM

Adama Delphine Fawundu: Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture

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  • Portland Museum of Art7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, 04101

 

WHEN THE WATER SINGS: ANCESTRAL MEMORY AND INTUITIVE ART MAKING

FREE PROGRAM IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM

Featured in Passages in American Art, photographer and interdisciplinary artist Adama Delphine Fawundu's video installation Cosmic Echoes, 2023, centers around themes of indigenization and ancestral memory. Hear from the artist in conversation with Shalini Le Gall, PhD, Chief Curator, the Susan Donnell and Harry W. Konkel Curator of European Art, as they discuss the creative process of making Cosmic Echoes. 

 

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist born in Brooklyn, NY, the ancestral space of the Lenni-Lanape. She is a descendant of the Mende, Krim, and Bubi peoples.  Her distinct visual language centers around themes of indigenization and ancestral memory. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. Her latest artist book, When the Water Sings, is one of a five-book collection in the Plume House Prayer Series II published by Rutgers University's Shine Portrait Studio. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University. 

 

 

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