Voices on Art-Blanton Museum of Art-Making Africa: Panel Discussion

On November 15, 2018, for our series Voices on Art, in collaboration with the Blanton Museum of Art, Art This Week Productions recorded this panel discussion including Nosarieme Garrick, Executive Producer and Director, My Africa Is (Making Africa artist), Walé Oyéjidé, Esq., Designer and Creative Director, Ikiré Jones (Making Africa artist), and Mukhtara Yusuf, artist and designer, with moderator, art historian, artist, and curator Moyo Okediji.

Part 1: Artist Talks

Part 2: Panel Discussion

From the Blanton website–“Art historian, artist, and curator Moyo Okediji is our moderator for this incredible panel of artists and designers, including two artists featured in our exhibition Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design.

PANELISTS:
Nosarieme Garrick, Executive Producer and Director, My Africa Is (Making Africa artist)
Walé Oyéjidé, Esq., Designer and Creative Director, Ikiré Jones (Making Africa artist)
Mukhtara Yusuf, artist and designer

Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design showcases the work of over 120 artists and designers and illustrates how African design accompanies and fuels economic, social, and political change in the continent. Through sculpture, prints, fashion, furniture, film, photography, apps, maps, digital comics, and more, the exhibition presents Africa as a hub of experimentation that generates innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance. Organized by the Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Making Africa focuses on a generation of entrepreneurs, thinkers, and designers from and within Africa who address a global audience and provide the world with a new vantage point on their continent. Ranging from playful to provocative to political, their work often breaks conventional barriers between disciplines and expands the potential of design in the twenty-first century.”

Thanks to the panel, and the Blanton for allowing us to film the talk. Thanks also to Blanton staff for their help in recording this talk.
This post was updated on December 12, 2018 to include Part 2: Panel Discussion.

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