Iyaba Ibo Mandingo speaking with visitors in exhibition. Photography by Brandon Smith, Whiskey & Oxfords
Thursday, December 12, 2024 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Nothing is better than hearing from the artist himself! Enjoy a whirlwind tour of Arwe Journey: Twentieth-Century Afri-Caribbean Migration with Mandingo. On view for the first time as a full series, his sixty-one part painting series, Arwe Journey, depicts the history of the Windrush Generation as inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s Great Migration series and August Wilson’s plays. The back gallery continues the story, showing the ancestral and spiritual roots of Mandingo’s artwork.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Lafayette Hall, CT State Housatonic (900 Lafayette Blvd)
Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye
Director of the Housatonic Museum of Art
November 20, 2024