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