...Anne-Grit Becker In 1952 Cy Twombly (1928–2011) changed the focus of his European grand tour by making a side trip to North Africa. During his three-month stay in Morocco he engaged in activities such as assisting archeological excavations, making tapestries out of native textiles, and producing...

... and postcolonial monuments while incorporating colors and patterns from textiles into elaborate backgrounds. However, Wiley’s response to Africa extends beyond formal considerations. In the spirit of Négritude he mined a collective African identity to contest former colonial hegemonies, critiquing...

...Tanisha Ford This essay examines the rise in popularity of “Afro look” fashions in the 1970s. The name Afro look was given by fashion industry insiders on both sides of the Atlantic to describe clothing that featured African and African-inspired prints, textiles, and embroidery techniques. Usually...

...Sonya Clark The Hair Craft Project is an exercise in socially engaged art practices, based on the premise that hairdressing is the primordial textile art form. Sonya Clark, artist and project director, sought to bridge multiple communities: African American hair salons; students, faculty...

... photographs, the article argues that this American–African economy works two effects. As a commodity dump, it factors into the ruin of Ugandan textile traditions. Yet as consumers select their wares from the jumbled mass of castoffs, they fashion new styles and invent new meanings. Copyright © 2013 Nka...

... Barbara Jones Hogu was a founding member of AfriCOBRA, a collective of painters, photographers, printmakers, textile designers, and sculptors that Jeff Donaldson founded in 1968 in Chicago. This interview covers Jones Hogu’s participation in AfriCOBRA and deals with questions about the group’s...

... to the present wit h a majority of historic works exhibitions celebrate African tex tiles. The drawn primarily from th e collections of the Met• D Essential Art of Africal/ Textiles: Design ropolitan and the British Museum, as well as sev • Without EI/ d, on view at The Metropolitan Muse• eral...

... • Fall 2014 92 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2827888 © 2014 by Nka Publications Hassan Musa, The Moderate Golfers 2, 2009. Inks on textiles, 174 x 156 cm. © Pascal Polar Gallery, Brussels the political and of the state of the world. fi nding solutions to the world’s...

... an international discourse around identity and history. Her art celebrates the beauty and boundlessness of African diaspora cultures, hair craft, textiles, music, and literature. Her national and international projects catalyze conversations about Africanist aesthetics and cultural survival in all corners touched...

..., today’s designers are making desirable, well-made, well-marketed collections that hang from rails all over the world. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Africa fashion textiles photography models global style A BRIEF HISTORY OF AFRICAN FASHION...

... the instruments of study and education. carnival, two globe-trotting museum aristrocracy."1 Class, race, politics, and founders hover over their collection in The African aspect of the textile history cannot...

... DOI 10.1215/10757163-1586463 © 2013 by Nka Publications Grace Ndiritu, Still Life: Lying Down Textiles, 2005 – 7. Video still. Color video, runtime 0:05:00, silent. Courtesy the artist...

...- masks and sculptures, usually found at exciting and special event was taking niques used in West African textiles the tourist markets, hang on trunks or place in the city. and with the important role that cloth wooden pillars; sculptures represent- The curators addressed...

... ural history dioramas, with the textiles, causing them to pass as that shouldn't seem so peculiar, identify more closely with the com• most obvious difference being that non-objective designs and motifs. but, regrettably, is. plexes...

..., approx. 8 m wide. Setagaya Art Museum. Rear view: Gravity and Grace, 2010. Aluminum and copper, 510 × 1,120 cm. Photo: Hitoshi Tagami Kawaguchi Nka • 107 he exhibition A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Nigerian textiles...

...Anna Arabindan-Kesson [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS LUBAINA HIMID TATE MODERN NOVEMBER 25, 2021 OCTOBER 2, 2022 Throughout Lubaina Himid s practice, textiles have often materialized the dialogic relationship she cultivates with audiences, activating...

...) is a triptych exe• Polytechnic (formerly KTI) in 1976. He traveled to France in the cuted in three large printed fabric panels painted over with textile late 1970s and earned a doctorate in fine art and art history from ink. The two paintings on the sides depict an angel carving a bow, Montpellier...

... to abstraction, immigrant artists in the West, along with many his play with language, the role of textiles in his working from their home bases, have been able work, and its connection to architecture. Vogel’s to exhibit without specific mandates imposed on insight in these discussions substantially...

... dealer, Sylvan Cole, who began to sell her prints. A year later she began work as a designer/weaver for the master textile designer Dorothy Liebes, found a downtown studio, and began to paint again and to make prints at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. Still in the early 1960's Amos...

... concerning textile traditions, viduation and agency. Mustafa's inter• non, in Western fascination, appropri• growing...