{"id":195,"date":"2020-04-14T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/bcmalabs\/?p=195"},"modified":"2022-02-14T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:41:45","slug":"the-presence-of-the-past-art-from-central-and-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/bcmalabs\/student-projects\/student-exhibitions\/the-presence-of-the-past-art-from-central-and-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presence of the Past: Art from Central and West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Presence of the Past<\/em> was co-curated by students enrolled in \u201cThe Powers of Central African Art\u201d during fall 2019, under the direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\">David Gordon<\/a>, Professor of History, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/staff\/amartino\/index.html\">Allison J. Martino<\/a>, BCMA Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/art-museum\/education\/curriculum-based-exhibits\/presence-of-the-past\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/bcmalabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/534\/2022\/02\/4-1a-object-scream2-artist-label-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Herv\u00e9 Youmbi, Two-Faced (Double Visage), Faces of Mask series, artist label, 2015-2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/bcmalabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/534\/2022\/02\/4-1a-object-scream2-artist-label-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/bcmalabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/534\/2022\/02\/4-1a-object-scream2-artist-label-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/bcmalabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/534\/2022\/02\/4-1a-object-scream2-artist-label-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/bcmalabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/534\/2022\/02\/4-1a-object-scream2-artist-label.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herv\u00e9 Youmbi, &#8220;Two-Faced (Double Visage), Faces of Mask&#8221; series, 2015-2017, mixed media (plastic, animal fur, hair, cowrie shells, beads), paper, shipping crate, photograph, film, Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund. 2019.26.a.-.d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This online exhibition shares the work of Bowdoin students and faculty who have worked with staff at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to curate an exhibition that will also be on view in the galleries. Together, this project highlights the important role of academic art museums to foster learning, research, and creativity among students. Students in the course \u201cThe Powers of Central African Art,\u201d taught by professor David Gordon in the History department, developed this exhibition as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/art-museum\/education\/curriculum-based-exhibits\/presence-of-the-past\/class.html\">class project<\/a>. The Museum\u2019s Zuckert Seminar Room provided a space for holding class visits, in which students studied the objects included in this exhibition over the course of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>This online exhibition presents the culmination of these efforts, and is structured to reflect the exhibition\u2019s conceptual development into four thematic and geographic sections\u2014Power Objecs: Central Africa; Representations of Womanhood: West Africa; Projecting Power: Akan Society; and Unpacking African Art: Beyond Africa. Within each section of the online exhibition, we share an introduction to that area and short texts about the included artworks prepared by the students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/art-museum\/education\/curriculum-based-exhibits\/presence-of-the-past\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/art-museum\/education\/curriculum-based-exhibits\/presence-of-the-past\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presence of the Past was co-curated by students enrolled in \u201cThe Powers of Central African Art\u201d during fall 2019, under the direction of David Gordon, Professor of History, and\u00a0Allison J. Martino, BCMA Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. 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