🌍 Webinar: African Textiles and Western Appropriation ✨

🗓️ When: Wednesday, March 19th | 10:00 AM
💻 Where: Virtual Webinar

Join Dr. Jordan Fenton, Associate Professor of Art History, and Elaine Yuen, Visiting Associate Professor of Fashion, for a thought-provoking conversation about African textiles, fashion, and cultural appropriation. 🧵🎨

🔍 What to Expect:

• Explore the cultural and artistic significance of African textiles 🪡
• Discuss their role in the global marketplace 🌎
• Dive into the controversies surrounding cultural appropriation 🧐

This conversation ties into the Art and Exchange: African Textiles in the Global Marketplace exhibition, now on display at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (Jan 28 - Jun 7, 2025).

📝 Registration Required:
The event is open and free to attend, but registration is required.  Questions?  Please reach out to Mollie Young at youngmr@miamioh.edu.
 

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Jordan A. Fenton is Associate Professor of Art History at Miami University. His research focuses on West African masquerade, secret societies, dress, and ethical fieldwork practice. His book, Masquerades and Money in Urban Nigeria: The Case of Calabar, won Honorable Mention for the 2024 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award. Fenton's more recent book (with Amanda Maples and Lisa Homann), New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, is published in conjunction with an international traveling exhibition of the same title. The show will open in April 2025 at New Orleans Museum of Art before traveling to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. He was faculty lead for the capstone and its related student-curated exhibition, Art & Exchange: African Textiles in the Global Marketplace.

Elaine Yuen is a doctoral candidate in cultural heritage informatics at Kent State University. Her study concentrates on the user experience of fashion students in digital museums. With her educational background in fashion and costume, historical costume & textiles from cross-cultures were the cultural heritages interpreted in her major. Her research focuses on the learning and using experience of fashion students through the digital collection from museums. Elaine embraced constructivism in constructing personal knowledge through interdisciplinary learning (fashion, costume, information technology, museum studies, and user experience) for a unique knowledge-building and contribution to the fashion and museum field.

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