Ericka Albaugh
Associate Professor of Government
Spring 2021
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Hervé Youmbi, "Two-Faced (Double Visage)"
A Discussion with the Artist
1:00 p.m. Eastern Time | Online event
https://www.bowdoin.edu/calendar/event.html?bid=1126849&rid=124537
Friday, May 7, 2021
"Africa Fashion Today: A Conversation with Malian and Nigerian Modern Fashion Designers"
Africa Alliance, in collaboration with the Africa Academic Hub, will be moderating and facilitating a discussion with two modern African fashion designers, Awa Meité and Busayo Olupona, virtually on Friday to discuss their craft and narratives in the industry. Our faculty advisor and Bowdoin Professor, Hanétha Vété-Congolo, will also offer her insights on African textiles.
For more information on the designers:
*Hailing from Mali and Cote d’Ivoire, Awa Meité is recognized as a multi-talented fashion and textile designer, filmmaker, stylist, and painter. Based in Mali’s Bamako, Meité’s label spotlights local artisans who are responsible for some of the country’s most thoughtful garments and accessories. Her ready-to-wear pieces come in an array of striking silhouettes and hand-woven fabrics and pay homage to her country’s rich history of craftsmanship and design. Her website states: Our handmade cotton fabrics tell our story with our heart. Each thread, each piece of weaving is recovered, reused. Each piece is unique, and we love this singularity which makes each one keep its own particularity.
*Busayo Olupona is a fashion designer and attorney. She is the founder of Busayo NYC, a Brooklyn-based fashion brand that has two parallel guiding principles - a complete obsession and celebration with colorful prints and the amplification of traditional Nigerian culture. Busayo NYC creates its textiles in collaboration with Nigerian artisans. We believe in prints and textiles that are dynamic, colorful, joyful, and have a point of view. Busayo is currently being sold at Saks Fifth Avenue, Shopbop, and specialty boutiques throughout the country. Busayo has dressed Madonna, Dr. Angela Davis, Lupita Nyong'o, Ms. Alfre Woodard, Wunmi Mosaku. Her work has appeared on Saturday Night Live.
