ADAMA Arts Salon | Ep #48
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EP #48 | Sunday, April 7th featuring Masela Nkolo in conversation with Lauren Tate Baeza.
ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.
Join us for ADAMA's upcoming in-person Arts Salon. Lauren Tate Baeza to moderate a conversation with scholar and artist Masela Nkolo. The conversation will center around diaspora narratives and how they influence and show up in Nkolo's artistic practice.
ADAMA Arts Salon | Ep #47
April 7, 2023
2-3 pm EST
Register to attend in person or virtually! The live stream link will be sent to all RSVPs via email.
About Moderator: Lauren Tate Baeza is a scholar of African art and political history. Academically trained in cultural geography, she is particularly interested in materiality and the spatial distribution of cultural phenomena. She currently serves as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum of Art and was previously Director of Exhibitions at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, where she curated the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection and organized numerous temporary exhibits engaging the visual arts to address social issues. Baeza lectures and consults at nonprofit organizations, universities, municipalities, and federal departments on a range of cultural and sociopolitical topics related to Africa and the African diaspora.
Masela Nkolo: A multidisciplinary artist who resides in Atlanta. He was born in Kinshasa, Congo where he graduated in fine arts with an emphasis in large-scale sculpture from the academy of fine arts. After failing his first year in art college in the course of sculpting allowed him to confront his identity as a Congolese and to reap the benefits of his heritage. Afterwards, Masela quickly joined his friends in an art movement in the streets of Kinshasa. Together they called their movement “Neo-Ngongism.” They started out exhibiting in the streets with the goal of awakening the consciences of the population through the arts.