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Homecoming

July 22, 2023 – May 25, 2024
Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art

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  • Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art installed in Harteveldt, Cheatham, and Northeast Gallery. Photo by Rob Strong.

    Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art installed in Harteveldt, Cheatham, and Northeast Gallery. Photo by Rob Strong.

  • A quilt made of indigo (blue) dyed fabrics. On the quilt, is a sewn map with yellow string.

    Bhasha Chakrabarti, It’s a Blue World, 2021, used jeans, indigo-dyed handloom fabric, and thread. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund and the Stephen and Constance Spahn ’63 Acquisition Fund; 2022.61. © Bhasha Chakrabarti. Photo by Sara Jamback.

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Emphasizing the role of women artists and feminine aesthetics in crafting African and African diaspora art histories, this exhibition surveys themes of home, kinship, motherhood, femininity, and intimacy in both historic and contemporary works. Homecoming breaks free of the binary traditional/contemporary to instead dwell at the interstices of history, futurity, and spirituality over the past two centuries.

Organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously supported by the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund.

Exhibition Curator

Alexandra Thomas

Related Publications

Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African ArtThe Hood Museum of Art Quarterly, Summer 2023

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Take a Closer Look

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A screen shot of a digital close-looking experience, picturing the detail of an Indigo blue quilt with a sewn map of the world on it.

Explore Bhasha Chakrabarti's It's a Blue World through this interactive close-looking experience.
 

 

 

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Exhibition subject: Africa

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FALL OPENING EVENT

Sep 28
5:00-7:00PM

EXHIBITION TOUR: "HOMECOMING"

Oct 21
2:00-3:00PM