Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces

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Harvard Art Museums

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A print on fabric features a Black woman in a yellow T-shirt with the words “Touch me and your first boxing lesson is free.” Green, yellow, and pink threads hang from the bottom of the work. Une impression sur tissu représente une femme noire portant un T-shirt jaune avec l’inscription « Touch me and your first boxing lesson is free ». Des fils verts, jaunes et roses pendent au bas de l’œuvre.

Join Peabody Museum curator Ilisa Barbash for a close look at photographic textiles by Joana Choumali featured in our special exhibition.

No application or registration needed.

Cost

This Event is free!

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the gallery talk. Space is limited, and talks are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

Location

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

Saturday, May 10 12:30PM – 1PM

Additional information

Join exhibition co-curator Ilisa Barbash, curator of visual anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, for a close look at Joana Choumali’s photographic textiles in Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025). Choumali created the textiles during her time as a 2020 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.

Free

A print on fabric features a Black woman in a yellow T-shirt with the words “Touch me and your first boxing lesson is free.” Green, yellow, and pink threads hang from the bottom of the work. Une impression sur tissu représente une femme noire portant un T-shirt jaune avec l’inscription « Touch me and your first boxing lesson is free ». Des fils verts, jaunes et roses pendent au bas de l’œuvre.

Saturday, May 10 12:30PM – 1PM

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Last updated May 6, 2025.