Exhibition Calendar

Exhibition and Programs for Academic Year 2019 Theme: 1619 Commemoration of the First African Arrival

Education

On Loan at the Tate

Clara Ugbodaga-Ngu’s Yoruba Palm Wine Seller is one of four paintings now on display at Tate Modern in London, courtesy of HU Museum. As part of Tate’s Nigerian Modernist Exhibition, HU Museum has also placed on loan two paintings by Akinola Lasekan and a painting by Simon Okeke. The works are from our Modern African collection donated in 1967 from the Harmon Foundation.

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‘I Am Copying Nobody: The Art and Political Cartoons of Akinola Lasekan’ and ‘Sankofa’ Exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art and Hampton University Museum – summer 2025

In 2021, The Chrysler Museum of Art, in partnership with the Hampton University Museum, was awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which aims to Diversify the Field of Curation and Conservation [mellondiversifyingthefield.com] by conducting a three-year pilot fellowship program for two museum professionals.

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