Harmonia Rosales: Reclaiming the Narrative
Harmonia Rosales: Reclaiming the Narrative In Person Registration for Event - Click Here Virtual Registration for Event - Click Here NYU Office of Global Programs, Office of Global Inclusion, The Center for Global Spiritual Life, The Center for Black Visual Culture, The Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, and The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora welcome artist Harmonia Rosales. Artist Harmonia Rosales interrogates the ways believers and dreamers re-imagine myth-making offering a unique lens on West African mythology. By weaving ancient tales of the Orisha pantheon with her ancestral knowledge, Rosales’ paintings insert the African deities she grew up with into narratives that span the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. Through her painted works, Rosales brings an overlooked world and tradition into the grander creative canon. Dr. Akissi Britton, anthropologist specializing in African diasporic religions; Black feminisms; and diaspora/Black Atlantic theory...