![]() Faletti family and Cecilia and Irwin Smiley. The original 2012 installation of Encounters featured highlights from KAM’s collection of historical African art, the majority of which is from west and central Africa and was generously donated to the museum by the Richard J. ![]() Gallery themes include: “The Power of Script ” “The Creativity of Power ” "Art of Masking " “Reading the Body ” “The Art of Small Things ” “Objects of Encounter ” “The Art of Performance ” “Fraught Histories ” and “Orisha: Yoruba Art, Spirit, and Diaspora.” ![]() The gallery’s thematic groupings and 11 visitor-activated videos of masquerades, narrative vignettes, and artist interviews assist in the “telling” of those stories and draw out resonances among the objects on display. The completely redesigned space, lighting, iPads, and signature casework invite visitors to see African artworks not only as visually compelling in their own right, but also as objects of encounter that can tell stories about the broader social contexts and often fraught histories through which they have journeyed. Installed in 2012, Encounters was the first of KAM’s permanent collection galleries to be fully renovated and reconceived to reflect the museum’s commitment to exploring the global connections and epistemological frames through which objects move and come to be known in the world.
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