The University of Birmingham Research and Cultural Collections is a cornucopia of extraordinary artefacts, from West African masks in the Danford Collection, to important twentieth century paintings such as Peter Lanyon’s mural in the Arts Building. The University owns, displays and teaches from groups of objects within seven distinct collections, these variously play ceremonial, commemorative, decorative and didactic roles in university life.
Style Africa: Nigeria and Ghana Unfolded
This exhibition has been curated as a response to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery exhibition, ‘Style Africa’, where Adam Jaffer, Curator of World Cultures has been working with young people from the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University to develop a contemporary exhibition about the cultural and symbolic meanings of cloth and cloth production in West Africa. Whereas the focus for this exhibition will be on larger pieces of textile and wider cultural, political and social themes, the focus for our exhibit will be the processes of cloth production and decoration and their representation within West African style, both domestically and internationally.
Danford room, Arts Building
Tuesday 24th April - Friday 20th July 2012
Admission free
Online Exhibition: Tales of the Unexpected: The interdisciplinary Nature of our Artefacts.
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