• Lecture: In Conversation with Yehimi Cambrรณn: Documenting the Undocumented in the South

    Oglethorpe University Museum of Art 4484 Peachtree Rd. , Atlanta, United States

    Join artist Yehimi Cambrรณn for an evening lecture and closing reception. Admission to this special evening with the artist is free for all and open to the public. Reception to follow from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. No advanced ticketing. No reservations. First come, first seated.

  • Lecture: From Germany to Atlanta: Fritz P. Zimmer’s Artistic Career

    Oglethorpe University Museum of Art 4484 Peachtree Rd. , Atlanta, United States

    Join Eli Arnold โ€˜06, University Librarian and Director, and Melissa Sagaseta โ€˜22, a recent alumna who curated the Zimmer exhibition for an evening lecture. Admission is free for all staff/faculty/students/alumni of OU and current OUMA members. General admission is $10.

  • The Curatorial Connoisseurship of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

    Oglethorpe University Museum of Art 4484 Peachtree Rd. , Atlanta, United States

    This lecture by Oglethorpe University Museum of Art Curator of Collections, John Daniel Tilford, will examine numerous works in the exhibition "Indian Miniatures from the Mehta Collection," which were once in the collection of the great curator and scholar, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.

  • “Of Quilts and Clay: African-American Applied Arts and Sculpture of the 20th Century” with John Daniel Tilford

    Oglethorpe University Museum of Art 4484 Peachtree Rd. , Atlanta, United States

    This lecture byย John Daniel Tilford, Curator of Collections at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art,ย will focus on the rich artistic heritage of both the Gee's Bend community of quilters in Southern Alabama and late 19th/early 20th century potters of the old Edgefield District in South Carolina. Once dismissed as purely practical and utilitarian objects, the […]

  • Lecture by John Daniel Tilford

    Oglethorpe University Museum of Art 4484 Peachtree Rd. , Atlanta, United States

    Impressionist Masterpieces from the Melamed Family: A Tradition of Cultural Philanthropy by John Daniel Tilford, Curator of Collections, OUMA

  • Hispaniola presents ‘A Historical and Cultural Journey in Haiti through the Work of Ulrick Jean-Pierre’

    Oglethorpe University Museum of Art 4484 Peachtree Rd. , Atlanta, United States

    Cรฉcile Accilien is Associate Professor of Haitian Studies and Director of the Institute of Haitian Studies in the Department of African and African-American Studies. Her primary areas of interest include Haitian Studies, Gender Studies and Film Studies. She is the author of Rethinking Marriage In Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures (Lexington Books, 2008). She has […]

  • Hispaniola presents ‘A Drought of Tears: Seismic Shifts and the Haitian Imaginary’

    Oglethorpe University Museum of Art 4484 Peachtree Rd. , Atlanta, United States

    Born in Trinidad, Dr. J. Michael Dash is a professor in the Departments of French and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University who has written extensively on Haitian and French Caribbean literature. His publications include Culture and Customs of Haiti (2001), The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (1998), Haiti […]