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Location: CHASS INTS 1111European Trajectories Series
Art from Multiple Perspectives: Collections, Exhibitions and Communities at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
In this talk, Dr. Silvia Forni will discuss some of the examples of community-driven collection projects, exhibitions, and programs that have been developed at the Fowler Museum in the last three years. By reconfiguring their processes and practices through conversations with a growing number of partners, they continue to explore new ways to fashion this sixty-year-old institution into a collaborative space for lifelong learning, cultural exchange, and open dialogue that celebrates multiple ways of knowing and being.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Silvia Forni joined the Fowler Museum as Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director in December 2022. At the Fowler she is leading a team of dedicated scholars and museum professionals deeply invested in celebrating underrepresented artists and art histories and curating exhibitions and programs with and for the global communities of greater Los Angeles. Before moving to LA, she served as Senior Curator of Global Africa and Deputy Vice President of the Department of Art & Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. She is also associated faculty with the Department of Anthropology of the University of Toronto and the Department of Art History at UCLA. She is the author of numerous essays and book chapters. Among her recent publications is the volume Making History: Visual Art & Blackness in Canada, co-edited with Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine (2023), Art, Honor, and Ridicule: Fante Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana (2017), co-authored with Doran H. Ross (Awarded the R.L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book Award from the textile Society of America in 2018) and Africa in the Market. 20th Century art from the Amrad African Art Collection. (2015) edited with Christopher B. Steiner (Awarded the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Art Council of the African Studies Association in 2017). Dr Forni holds a B.A. (Laurea) in Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy, an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, Indiana University, IN. and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, University of Turin, Italy.
Sponsored by the Being Human Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society
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