Curator Perrin Lathrop on Clay Has Memory
Zizipho Poswa (born 1979, Mthatha, South Africa; active Cape Town, South Africa), Cape Town, South Africa, uNa’kaMzingisi (Mzingisi’s Mother), 2024. Glazed earthenware; 134.6 × 50.8 × 58.4 cm. Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection Fund (2025-123)
Curator Perrin Lathrop discusses how artists from Africa and its diasporas inherit generational knowledge of craft traditions.
Join us for a talk by Curator of African Art Perrin Lathrop to mark the opening of Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa. The lecture will explore how knowledge is sustained across generations of artists from Africa and its diasporas.
Registration is required and includes early access to the exhibition beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 18.
Members receive full-day access to the exhibition from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Members Preview Day on July 18, before it opens to the public fully on Sunday, July 19. If you are not yet a member, join today!
