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JANUARY 14 – 16
HOLIDAY
MOA closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
JANUARY 24
GAZING AT THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 1970S TO THE PRESENT
Exhibit opens. Click here for details
FEBRUARY 16
7:00PM
LECTURE
CANDOMBLÉ IN PUBLIC: AFRICAN RELIGION, MEDIA AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL
Elina Hartikainen, Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia, will discuss her research into religious and racial identity politics in contemporary Brazil. Specifically, she will examine how Brazilian practitioners of Candomblé, an African diasporic religion, imagine and perform religious ceremonies and address public discourses on African religiosity and race, as well as democracy and multiculturalism. Admission is free.
MARCH 22
7:00PM
LECTURE
CROOKED NAILS STANDING TALL: IMAGES AND STORIES OF DISABILITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
There's a saying in Japan that the nail that sticks out will get hammered down. Over the past fifteen years, anthropologist Karen Nakamura of Yale University has been chronicling the lives of people with physical and psychiatric disabilities in contemporary Japan through still images and ethnographic film. She has focused on the social protest movements of people with disabilities in Japan and their refusal to be silenced. Through multiple modalities of text, image and sound, her talk will weave the story of disability protests in Japan with thoughts on the representation of the disabled body and mind in contemporary society. Admission is free.
MARCH 24
1:00PM – 4:00PM
CULTURES OF THE WORLD FAMILY DAY
This exciting event for all ages will feature crafts and hands-on activities from different cultures around the globe. Join us at the Museum of Anthropology for an afternoon of educational fun and stamp your passport as you travel the world without leaving Winston-Salem. Admission is free.
MARCH 31
GAZING AT THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 1970S TO THE PRESENT
Exhibit closes.
APRIL 6 – 9
HOLIDAY
MOA closed for Easter.
APRIL 12
7:00PM
LECTURE
WHO WERE THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC ARTISTS?
Dr. Dean Snow, renowned Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University, will discuss his research on 30,000-year-old hand stencils in the caves of France and Spain and his unexpected results about the gender of the artists. This event is cosponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute and the Department of Anthropology. Admission is free.
APRIL 17
RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION
Exhibit opens.
MAY 19
ART OF SKY, ART OF EARTH: MAYA COSMIC IMAGERY
Exhibit closes.
MAY 26 – 28
HOLIDAY
MOA closed for Memorial Day.
