EVENT
NOTICE
The
Boston-Jo'burg Connection:
Collaboration
and Exchange at Artist Proof Studio,
1983-2012
TUFTS
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
@
THE SHIRLEY and ALEX AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER
Opening
Reception: Thursday, May 31,
5:30-8:00
Curatorial
Walk-Through, 5:30 PM
Live
Music by the Afrika Gente Quartet, 6:15 PM
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Nhlanhla
Xaba, Untitled (Singer with Mask), 1999.
Lithograph, 9/20, 15x22
inches
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This
groundbreaking exhibition tells the story of Artist
Proof Studio,
which
was conceived in Boston by Tufts/Museum School graduate
Kim Berman in the 1980s and co-founded with artist
Nhlanhla Xaba in Johannesburg in 1991. Over its
twenty-one year history, this community-based
printmaking studio has mirrored the transformations in
South African society from the end-stages of Apartheid
to a conception of artists as activist-citizens in a
democratic society
The
exhibition is guest curated by Pamela Allara, an
expert in contemporary South African art who has
published and lectured widely on Artist
Proof Studio. She is an associate professor emerita
of Brandeis University.
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