Monday, January 13 - Sunday, February 23
Art Exhibit (Purdue Galleries)
Ritual and Rebirth: African Masks from the West Guinea Coast and Images of Human Rights
Robert L. Ringel Gallery and Stewart Center Gallery
From January 13 through February 23, 2003, the Galleries will present a pair of exhibits
representing the traditional and the contemporary in African culture. In the Robert L.
Ringel Gallery, Ritual and Rebirth: African Masks from the Collection of Thomas D. Slater
presents association masks from the Poro and Soweii societies. These masks were integral
to ceremonial rites of passage, in which young men and women were indoctrinated into the
social responsibilities of adulthood. The exhibit is being developed by art history
students in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, under the supervision of
Dr. David Parrish.
At the same time in the Stewart Center Gallery, Images of Human Rights will unfold the
promise of the burgeoning South African democracy in a portfolio of black and white
woodcuts recently acquired for the Purdue Galleries permanent collection. In the aftermath
of apartheid, the portfolio was assembled to celebrate the creation of the South African Bill
of Rights. Each of the twenty-seven clauses of the Bill of Rights is represented by an
image from an individual South African artist. The BCC Haraka Writers will present poems
in response to the artwork on February 13th.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Lecture