Lecture Exhibition
Fashion and Fabric: Textiles, Trade, and Africa
Thursday, April 11 6 - 7:30 p.m. Buy Tickets Members: $12 Adult: $20 Students: $10
Explore Yinka Shonibare’s practices of leveraging extraordinary textiles and period clothing as cultural signifiers through a discussion between Melinda Watt, the Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago and historian Kirstin Purtich. Purtich will examine how global colonization plays a role in forming hybrid cultural identities and Watt will focus on the history of the textile trade including the conditions that led to the development of a West African market for “Dutch wax” cloth in the 19th century.
Image: Yinka Shonibare CBE (British/Nigerian, b. 1962) Party Time: Re-imagine America (detail), 2009. Fiberglass mannequins, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, leather boots, table, eight chairs, and other mixed Media. Collection of the Newark Museum, Purchase 2010 Helen McMahon Brady Cutting Fund, 2010.5.1-66. Photography by Michael Tropea at the Driehaus Museum, 2019.
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