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Looking at Form and Surface in African Ceramics

Thursday, November 07, 2019, 5:00 PM – ,

Focus Gallery, Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Art of the Americas, 3rd Floor
Chewa peoples, Malawi. Storage vessel, 20th century. Clay, 16 x 16 in. Gift of William M. Itter, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2017.95.

This Focus gallery exhibition explores the dynamics of African ceramics, with attention to different approaches to making ceramics and the roles of gender and women ceramicists in Africa. The exhibition includes a selection of ceramics from across sub-Saharan Africa donated or on loan from the collection of William M. Itter, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Indiana University.

More information about this exhibition and related collection is included in this Collections Online Feature essay.

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