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Saturday, May 20, 2017
"Africa Print Fashion Now"
with
Victoria L. Rovine
Associate Proffesor of Art History, The
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10:30 a.m. Refreshments 11:00 a.m.
Program
Lenart Auditorium, Floor A, Fowler
Museum, UCLA
REFRESHMENTS:
Enjoy a 10:30 am coffee reception
before the talk.
Co-sponsored by the Textile
Museum Associates of Southern California, Inc.
In
conjunction with the exhibition African-Print Fashion Now!, Victoria
L. Rovine, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, addresses African fashion designers inspired by
longstanding traditional dress practices, which they transform to create
something new. These innovations feature both African-print cloth and other
textiles and media.
African-Print Fashion Now introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse
African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds
that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local
seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions
designed by Africa’s newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking,
transnational, and youth styles favored in Africa’s urban centers. All
feature the colorful, boldly designed, manufactured cotton textiles that
have come to be known as “African-print cloth.”
The exhibition tells the global stories of these textiles—the early
history of the print cloth trade in West and Central Africa, the
expansion of production following independence movements, and the
increasing popularity of Asian-made print cloth today. Popular
African styles from Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, and
Senegal are featured, as well as groundbreaking runway fashions by
some of Africa’s most talented couturiers: Ituen Basi, Gilles Touré,
Lanre da Silva Ajayi, Titi Ademola, Lisa Folawiyo, Dent de Man,
Adama Paris, Patricia Waota, Ikiré Jones, and Afua Dabanka.
Black-and-white studio portraits illuminate print fashions of the
1960s and 1970s, while works by contemporary artists incorporate
African print to convey evocative messages about heritage, hybridity,
displacement, and aspiration.
Victoria Rovine is associate professor of Art History at University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rovine specializes in African art
with a focus on African textiles and dress practices, and on
Africa’s presence in Western visual culture, particularly in early
twentieth century Europe. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from
Indiana University. Prof. Rovine has conducted research in Mali
since the early 1990s, and has also worked in Senegal, South Africa,
Ghana, and elsewhere in Africa.
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There will be an exclusive Gallery
Tour of the exhibition for TMA/SC members by Betsy Quick immediately
following the lecture. Please gather at the entrance to the gallery.
PARKING
available in UCLA Lot 4, 221 Westwood Plaza at
Sunset Blvd. Parking is $3/hr or att max $12/day
Pay
for your estimated time, and hold on to the
ticket (you don’t have to put it back in the window of your car.)
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