Brosseau Center for Learning: Art, Identity, and Revolution in Africa and Cuba

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Brosseau Center for Learning: Art, Identity, and Revolution in Africa and Cuba
Brosseau Center for Learning: Art, Identity, and Revolution in Africa and Cuba
Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Art, Identity, and Revolution in Africa and Cuba was organized and curated by students in Jessica Gerschultz’ AAAS320/HA353 Modern and Contemporary African Art and Cécile Accilien’s AAAS323/LAA302 Cuba in the Americas.

Works of art

unrecorded Ejagham or Widekum artist, mask
unrecorded Ejagham or Widekum artist
circa 1930
unrecorded Yoruba artist, brass fan
unrecorded Yoruba artist
late 1800s–1975
unrecorded Oyo artist, oshe Shango (dance wand)
unrecorded Oyo artist
late 1800s–1975
unrecorded Oyo artist, standing figure, identified as Eshu
unrecorded Oyo artist
late 1800s–1975
unrecorded Oyo artist, Eshu figure with shell attachments
unrecorded Oyo artist
late 1800s–1975
Dirck Hals (1591–1656), A Jolly Company
Dirck Hals (1591–1656)
early-mid 1600s
Hendrik Cornelisz. van Vliet (1611 or 1612–1675), The Tomb of William the Silent, New Church Delft
Hendrik Cornelisz. van Vliet (1611 or 1612–1675)
mid 1600s