For those who were foiled...Here is your new opportunity

Find a contemporary African artist working today. Peruse his/her website and oeuvre. Consider how, if at all, this artist engages traditional imagery or themes in his/her work. Make explicit connections/comparisons where possible. Provide the link to the artist's personal site in your blog. Blogs should be posted by FRIDAY, Dec. 2, 11:59 p.m.

How else/through what other lens/frames might we consider the artist's work?
•Gender?
•Sexuality?
•(Dis)ability
•Politics/activism?
•aesthetics?

see for eg: 

http://art.state.gov/artists.aspx

http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/dialogue/intro.htm
  

Oh No!

Dear All,
I've received your emails about the Waterloo Arts Center! Sometimes these things come up, and it's good to learn to go with the flow. Your visits will just have to happen some other time. In any case, I very much appreciate your efforts to go, and for those who went and blogged on the Bahamaian show, that will be graded. If you blogged on Rotimi Fani-Kayode, that also will be graded. If you still want to blog on either of those things, you may with a new deadline of Sunday night. However, if your plans were foiled and now feel too much time pressure, don't worry. I will provide another prompt after Thanksgiving to get you up to speed. For all, do comment this week, by Monday night, the same as usual. 

Prompt for 11-11-11

This week, you are to visit the Waterloo Center for the Arts (check their hours here). Make sure to consider the Haitian art displayed. You may also want to link in your observations of the Bahamaian Art exhibition currently on view.

For your blog, write a critical review of the WAC display(s) and/or continue your critical consideration of the readings on Rotimi Fani-Kayode and our class discussion from Tuesday.


For extra credit, write your blog in binary code.
Just kidding.