Tertulia Nights with Martin Tsang

Thu May 14 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum | Miami

FIU Frost Art Museum
Publisher/HostFIU Frost Art Museum
Tertulia Nights with Martin Tsang
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Orishas and Strands of Faith: Materiality, Devotion, and Sacred Lucumí Beadwork
About this Event

Join us on May 14th for a conversation with whose work spans scholarship, archives, cultural heritage, and material practice. Exploring the long history of beads in Afro-Atlantic religious traditions, this talk examines Cuban Lucumí beadwork as a vital form of ritual practice, memory, and the transmission of knowledge centered on the orishas. Drawing on fieldwork and personal experience as a priest, anthropologist, and bead artist, Tsang considers how meaning is embedded in color, pattern, and process, and how these traditions evolve through interdiasporic cross-fertilization, with resonances in the work of Wifredo Lam and the writings of Lydia Cabrera.

Support for this initiative is provided by the Art Bridges Access for All program and FIU CasaCuba.

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Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, 10975 Southwest 17th Street, Miami, United States

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