| GI-287686-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | New Orleans Museum of Art | Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club | 9/1/2022 - 10/31/2023 | $300,000.00 | Lisa | | Rotondo-McCord | | | | New Orleans Museum of Art | New Orleans | LA | 70179-0123 | USA | 2022 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | Implementation
of a traveling exhibition on the artistic exchange between African American
artist Jacob Lawrence and West African artists during Lawrence’s travels to
Nigeria in the 1960s.
Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club is a traveling exhibition jointly organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art that highlights an under-researched body of work by the African American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), and celebrates the little-known creative exchange that occurred between Lawrence and his West African-based contemporaries during the 1960s. Lawrence’s travels to Nigeria in 1962 and 1964 occurred just a few years after Nigerian independence, when the citizens were embracing self-governance and developing the strategies to present a modern Nigeria to the world. The arts—music, literature, and drama—contributed forcefully to this sense of self-determination. The exhibition also explores his relationship with the Mbari Artists and Writers Club, an organization of continental African-based artists, writers, and dramatists promoting modern African artistic practice, and the Club's arts journal publication Black Orpheus. |
| RZ-51556-13 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | Boston University | Bronze Age Cultural Dynamics, Sustainability, and Landscapes in the Marmara Lake Basin, Gediz Valley, Western Turkey | 10/1/2013 - 9/30/2017 | $281,645.00 | Christina | M. | Luke | Christopher | H. | Roosevelt | Boston University | Boston | MA | 02215-1300 | USA | 2013 | Archaeology | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 281645 | 0 | 281645 | 0 | Archaeological excavation and analysis of a second millennium BCE site at Kaymakçi in the Marmara Lake Basin, Western Anatolia, Turkey. (36 months)
Our research question focuses on the establishment and maintenance of regional authority in the Marmara Lake Basin, the likely core of the Seha River Land, in the context of social and cultural hybridization of Aegean, central Anatolian, and local traditions. We hypothesize the following: (1) that the 2nd-millennium BCE network of citadels in the Marmara Lake Basin reflects hybrid responses to Aegean and central Anatolian traditions of residential, administrative, and fortification design and organization indicative of increasingly centralized socio-political authority; (2) that shared Anatolian ritual traditions of libation were performed near citadels and sacred locales as a means of reifying authority; (3) and that long-standing and local subsistence practices and risk-management strategies enabled its sustainability. |