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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2023 |
| Registration ID | HARTB276001 |
| Course Title | Topics in Museum Studies-African Arts in Diaspora |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | History of Art |
| Instructor | Scott,Monique Renee |
| Time and Days | Th 01:10pm-04:00pm |
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2339 This is a topics course. Course content varies. This course was formerly numbered HART B248.; Current topic description: Arts of the African Diaspora in Ritual, Resistance & Revival. This course explores how “traditional” African art is anything but static, inert and ahistorical. We approach African arts—the sculptures, costumes, masks, textiles and other material cultural that comprise the majority of African art in western museums—as something with lived experiences and living histories. Moreso, we explore recent global and political movements towards the reckoning, repatriation and resuscitation of African Art in Western museums and museums of the African Diaspora. We will also consider the mobilization of African art in the Negritude, Anti-Colonial and Black Power movements in the 20th century as well as the mobilization of African art, both traditional and contemporary, in 21st century movements to “decolonize” museums and affirm that Black Lives Matter. Along with African material culture, we will also think about the role of historical monuments in civic spaces in concretizing notions of race and consider how new articulations of Blackness can resist concretized racial hierarchies and reconceptualize the past and the future of the African Diaspora in radical new ways. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Enrollment Cap: 15. This course is for 360 students only. This course is part of 360 Paradigms of Revival: Black Liberatory Education, Embodiment & the Art. In a fundamentally decolonial spirit, this course cluster examines the ways colonialism has contained, collected, captured, and commodified Blackness, a practice that circulates objectified images of the peoples, cultures, and cultural objects of Africa and the African Diaspora. Furthermore, we explore how African cultural traditions such as dance and artwork become suppressed and manipulated by western institutions such as academia and the museum. This cluster aims to use liberatory strategies to reconstruct notions of Blackness beyond the strongholds of colonialism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and “the chattel principle.” To be specific, we will investigate the artistic expressions of African dance and African artwork through new liberatory post-colonial educational frameworks to consider how Black culture expression and Black cultural legacy across the African diaspora have been sustained and revived, despite systematic attempts to capture, condemn or contain these artistic expressions. Through reviving and futuring Black Radical traditions in collaboration with Queer and Afro Feminist theory and practice, we offer new context and new life for understanding, experiencing, and embodying Africanness and Blackness. This 360 cluster includes enrolling in ARTD B210 and EDUC B217 in Fall 2022. |
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