Name: Art in Focus with Dr. Abbe Schriber
Start: 2025-08-19T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-19T11:30:00-04:00
Location: Columbia Museum of Art

Art in Focus is a series of spotlight talks in which art historians explore themes found in an individual artwork in the CMA Collection, offering an opportunity to discover new insights with a true fine arts specialist. For the next Art in Focus, Dr. Abbe Schriber leads a talk on Carrie Mae Weems’ Untitled (The Shape of Things), on view in Let’s Have a Talk: Black Artists from the CMA Collection. Learn more about this artwork and the artist who created it.
Free with membership, SC residency, or admission. Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
Dr. Schriber is assistant professor of art history & African American studies at the University of South Carolina, where her research and teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st-century art of the African Diaspora.