Center for African Studies

“Seeing Kongo in America: Early and Contemporary African-American Art”

with Susan Cooksey
Curator of African Art
Harn Museum of Art

The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is working together with the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA Tervuren) to display and travel the first exhibition in the United States to deeply explore the legacy of Kongo culture. Kongo across the Waters, on view from October 22, 2013 through March 23, 2014 will present more than 160 works of historic and contemporary art and artifacts—including loans from the Royal Museum for Central Africa that have never been on display in the United States and several never before exhibited archaeological discoveries—spanning five centuries from the 16th century when Kongo first emerged as a major Atlantic presence, to the present day.