BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3360-12c24ff30503da72e3c0ff0e49974011@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260525T114419Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T133000 SUMMARY:African Studies Spring 2023 Brown Bag Series: Perrin Lathrop DESCRIPTION:\nBetween 1947 and 1967\, institutions such as the Harmon Fo undation\, the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\,\n\nand Historically Bla ck Colleges and Universities collected and exhibited works by many of th e most important\n\nAfrican artists of the mid-twentieth century\, inclu ding Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria)\, Gerard Sekoto (South Africa)\,\n\nIbrahim E l-Salahi (Sudan)\, and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). The inventive and irrefutably contemporary nature\n\nof these artists&rsquo\; paintings\, sculptures\, and works on paper defied typical Western narratives about African art\n\nbeing isolated in a "\;primitive"\; past. This ta lk introduces the touring exhibition African Modernism in America\,\n\nw hich opened at Fisk University Galleries in October 2022. It will examin e the complex connections between\n\nmodern African artists and American patrons\, artists\, and cultural organizations amid the interlocking hi stories\n\nof civil rights\, decolonization\, and the Cold War and revea l a transcontinental network of artists\, curators\, and\n\nscholars tha t challenged assumptions about African art in the United States and enco uraged American\n\nengagement with African artists as contemporaries.\n\ nPerrin M. Lathrop\, Ph.D.\, joined the Princeton University Art Museum as assistant curator of African art\n\nin 2022. She was previously postd octoral Fellow in modern and contemporary art history at the\n\nUniversi ty of Maryland-Phillips Collection (2021&ndash\;22)\, the Warhol Foundat ion Curatorial Fellow at Fisk\n\nUniversity Galleries (2018&ndash\;19)\, and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of\n\nAfric an Art (2017&ndash\;18). As a curatorial associate in the arts of global Africa at the Newark Museum\n\n(2012&ndash\;2013)\, Perrin curated The Art of Translation: The Simon Ottenberg Gift of Modern and\n\nContempora ry Nigerian Art. She received her doctorate from Princeton University in the Department of Art &\;\n\nArchaeology with a graduate certificate in African American studies in 2021. Her research\, teaching\,\n\nand c uratorial work explore the interlocking intellectual histories and netwo rks of nationalism\, Pan-\n\nAfricanism\, and modernism that informed ar t produced under the strictures of colonialism in Africa.\n\nPerrin is c o-curator of the traveling exhibition African Modernism in America with Fisk University\n\nGalleries and the American Federation of Arts (2022&n dash\;24) and editor of its accompanying publication.\n\nFor more detail s: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-bbs_perrin-lathrop/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Between 1947 an d 1967, institutions such as the Harmon Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
and Historically Black Colleges and Universities co llected and exhibited works by many of the most important
African a rtists of the mid-twentieth century, including Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria), Ge rard Sekoto (South Africa),
Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan), and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). The inventive and irrefutably contemporary nature
of these artists’ paintings, sculptures, and works on paper defied typical Western narratives about African art
being isolated in a "primitive" past. This talk introduces the touring exhibi tion African Modernism in America,
which opened at Fisk University Galleries in October 2022. It will examine the complex connections betwe en
modern African artists and American patrons, artists, and cultur al organizations amid the interlocking histories
of civil rights, d ecolonization, and the Cold War and reveal a transcontinental network of artists, curators, and
scholars that challenged assumptions about African art in the United States and encouraged American
engagement with African artists as contemporaries.


Perrin M. Lathro p, Ph.D., joined the Princeton University Art Museum as assistant cu rator of African art
in 2022. She was previously postdoctoral Fello w in modern and contemporary art history at the
University of Maryl and-Phillips Collection (2021–22), the Warhol Foundation Curatoria l Fellow at Fisk
University Galleries (2018–19), and a Predoc toral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of
African Art (201 7–18). As a curatorial associate in the arts of global Africa at t he Newark Museum
(2012–2013), Perrin curated The Art of Trans lation: The Simon Ottenberg Gift of Modern and
Contemporary Nigeria n Art. She received her doctorate from Princeton University in the Depar tment of Art &
Archaeology with a graduate certificate in Afric an American studies in 2021. Her research, teaching,
and curatorial work explore the interlocking intellectual histories and networks of na tionalism, Pan-
Africanism, and modernism that informed art produce d under the strictures of colonialism in Africa.
Perrin is co-curat or of the traveling exhibition African Modernism in America with Fisk Un iversity
Galleries and the American Federation of Arts (2022– 24) and editor of its accompanying publication.

For more details: https: //events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-bbs_perrin-lathrop/

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