Fashioning Modernity: Art and independence Among Yorubas in Nigeria
By Martie Janeway
Allison Martino and her students have curated a new art exhibition called Fashioning Modernity: Art and Independence among Yorubas in Nigeria.

Harrison Dunne-Polite ’19 and Kinaya Hassane ’19 discuss works in the exhibition.
The Bowdoin Museum of Art show was part of students' coursework for Martino’s course African Art and Visual Culture (AFRS 2250/ARTH 2350). Martino is Bowdoin's Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies.
This exhibition examines innovations in Yoruba arts—at once traditional and modern—during a critical moment in Nigeria’s history, the transition to political independence. It runs January 17 through March 17, 2019.