High Museum

July 17, 2008, 6:30 pm

Talk and Talk Back Gallery Discussion - Otabenga

Featuring After 1968 artists Otabenga Jones & Associates

Thursday, July 17, 6:30 p.m., Special Exhibition Galleries, Wieland Pavilion

Free with Museum admission and free to Members.
Join artists Otabenga Jones & Associates as they lead a gallery discussion inspired by their ongoing educational art collaboration.

Otabenga Jones & Associates is a Houston-based educational art collaboration 
named after Ota Benga, a “Pygmy” brought to the United States from Africa in the early 1900s and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo, who committed suicide after being released from captivity. The group explores African American identity politics through installation and performance art. Their work in all media addresses how African Americans create their own sense of identity, and it draws heavily upon historical Civil Rights and black-power images of the 1960s, socially conscious hip-hop of the 1980s and contemporary black culture.

Free with Museum admission and free to Members.