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Spirits Unveiled: A Black American Art History Tour

November 17 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Spirits Unveiled: A Black American Art History Tour
In celebration of Hoodoo Heritage Month, join curatorial assistant Sirene Martin for a tour discussing several works that highlight traditional Black American spirituality.

Hoodoo-is a colloquial term that represents the spiritual technology and culture developed by African people enslaved in the United States.

Winfred Rembert, American, 1945  –  2021
2011 
Dye on carved and tooled leather
Museum purchase through the gift of Speed Contemporary, the Alice Speed Stoll Endowed Art Acquisition Fund, and funds generously donated by Brooke Brown Barzun and Matthew Barzun, Cary Brown and Steven Epstein, anonymous, Sara and James Haynes, Colin and Woo Speed McNaughton, Connie Goodman, Nick and Ursula Melhuish, Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham, Sandy Gulick, and Juliet Gray and Mathias Kolehmainen, 2022.2

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Date:
November 17
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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