[BKARTS] SoCal APHA Exhibit Tour

[Kitty Maryatt <twohands.press@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An invitation to our second event of 2008 --

APHA Southern California Chapter
Exhibition tour of Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in  
African Art
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Friday, February 8, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.

Please join us for a walk-through of Inscribing Meaning, which will  
be led by Polly Nooter Roberts, co-curator of the exhibition and  
deputy director and chief curator of the Fowler Museum. Writing  
systems have flourished in Africa for thousands of years and have  
contributed significantly to the global history of writing, yet they  
have received little attention outside the continent. Inscribing  
Meaning brings together outstanding works of art from a range of  
periods, regions, genres, and peoples in order to consider the  
interplay between African art and the communicative power of graphic  
systems, language, and the written word. Artworks include ancient  
Egyptian funerary arts; masks, sculptures, textiles, and adornment  
from across the continent; illuminated liturgical texts; and the work  
of contemporary African artists. Explains Polly Roberts, “the  
intellectual complexity, artistic beauty, and historical uses of  
African scripts demand a wider, more inclusive definition of writing.  
Writing has, for the most part, been limited to phonetic alphabets,  
despite the great diversity and cultural richness of inscription  
systems worldwide.” (From the Fowler's website)

Please meet us at 2:30 p.m. in the Museum's Galleria, just outside  
the entrance to the gallery for Inscribing Meaning. The tour will  
last about one hour. The museum is open from 12-5 p.m., so you are  
welcome to visit the other exhibitions before or after the tour. The  
Fowler Museum is located on the UCLA campus. Please visit the Fowler  
website (http://www.fowler.ucla.edu) for more information on the  
exhibition as well as directions and parking details. Admission to  
the museum is free; parking on campus is a maximum of $8.

Kindly RSVP by February 5 to Richenda Brim at at rbrim@xxxxxxxxxx 
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