Monday, March 4, 2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Speaker/Performer:
Dr. Augustus Casely-Hayford
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 101 (Auditorium)
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford is the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the nation’s premiere museum devoted to the arts of Africa from antiquity to modernity. He joined the museum in February of 2018, bringing with him a wealth of experience writing, lecturing, and broadcasting on Africa’s arts and cultures. Casely-Hayford is a prominent expert on Africa’s arts in the public sphere and has been featured on the BBC and in a TEDGlobal Talk. He is the author of the 2018 Ladybird Expert book, Timbuktu