Lunchtime Lecture: Collaboration in the CMA’s African Art Galleries

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The Cleveland Museum of Art

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• Date Tuesday, February 07, 2023
• Time 12:00PM - 12:30PM
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The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes almost 45,000 objects and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. Having recently completed an ambitious, multi-phase renovation and expansion project across... more

Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries.

Every museum display is the result of collaboration. In this “behind-the-scenes stories” talk, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, curator of African art, highlights objects whose presentations benefited from recent collaborations with CMA conservators and mount makers, a contemporary Nigerian artist, and a bird expert.

Container (detail), c. 1920. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, possibly Ọ̀yọ́ region, Yorùbá-style carver. Wood, paint, and iron alloy; 45.7 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1974.208