SPOTLIGHT ON...
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-4126
ABOUT THE MUSEUM: An international museum, based in San Francisco, MoAD is committed to showcasing the "best of the best" from the African Diaspora. To facilitate this, MoAD reaches out and initiates collaborative ventures with institutions of similar vision from around the world. Already, the museum has forged rich relationships with the British Museum, the Museum of African Art (NY), Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton, and the University of California Berkeley, amongst others.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
WHO: Bryan Wiley
WHAT: African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals
WHEN: March 20th - August 28th, 2010
WHY: Bryan Wiley is a photojournalist who has traveled the Atlantic Black diaspora documenting altars and ritual practices by African descendants and in doing so, illuminates continuities in beliefs and customs of descendants of former slave populations. Wiley uses the concept of altar (a high place of veneration) as a vehicle for intersections in art and history. Altars, in many cultures represent sites of ritual communication that often open a pathway to divine consciousness with the supernatural world. They also act as a place of public social interaction and intervention that explores disruption and continuity of African peoples and their descendants. (From the MOAD website.)