African Arts Initiative

Art Informs Art: Conversation and Concert Join us on Thursday, April 28th at 5:30pm in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South), for a unique opportunity to hear from acclaimed international artist Nelson Makamo and jazz musician and composer Mandisi Dyantyis for...

Register Here The Carpenter Center is fortunate to have an impressive and wide-ranging group of artists working across photography, participatory and performance-based practices, painting and drawing, and video teaching in the Department of Art, Film, and...

Art as Activism – A conversation with Nelson Makamo "Art is one of the things that doesn’t choose the audience: the audience chooses it." - Nelson Makamo on his work. Nelson's work has always been about hope. Art can be enjoyed by everyone, and Makamo...

For the last forty years American born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher have journeyed over 300,000 miles travelling through 44 countries and recording over 150 cultures on the African continent. Their recently published double volume book...

A large-scale calligraphic panel from Morocco features stylized views of Mecca and Medina and representation of the Prophet Muhammad’s sandals, alongside prayers praising the Prophet and a selection of verses from the Qur’an. This striking work raises the...

A large-scale calligraphic panel from Morocco features stylized views of Mecca and Medina and representation of the Prophet Muhammad’s sandals, alongside prayers praising the Prophet and a selection of verses from the Qur’an. This striking work raises the...

In this seminar, Mounia Chekhab Aboudaya, curator for North Africa and Iberia at the Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar, and Rachel Parikh, the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will explore the religious and...