Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths

FAIN: GE-230789-15

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Marla C. Berns (Project Director: January 2015 to November 2017)

Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs on the art of blacksmithing in sub-Saharian Africa from 500 BC to the present.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA is requesting a $75,000 planning grant to support the development of Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, a project including a traveling exhibition, scholarly publication, educational outreach programs, and community collaborations. Striking Iron will present 250 diverse objects from sub-Saharan Africa that span early archaeological evidence of ironworking dating from approximately 500 BCE to the present day.