Please consider joining the ASA Local Arrangement Committee and their generous Museum Partners for the exciting events listed below. For questions, please contact the ASA Secretariat at members@africanstudies.org.
Prospetto a Mare Special Tour
This event features a private tour of the Prospetto a Mare exhibits by Eritrea-born artist and Professor of Photograph Dawit L. Petros.
Where: Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, 600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Meet at: Ground floor of the Museum
When: Wednesday, Dec. 11, Time 2:00pm
Cost: Free with ASA Meeting Badge
Capacity: 25, Sign-up Required
Transportation: Public Transportation Red Line (16 mins) or Uber/Lyft/Taxi (10 mins) or Walking (35 mins)
National Public Housing Museum
This tour will include a conversation between Lisa Lee, Founding ED of the NPHM, and Dr. Bonita Bennett, South African Heritage Consultant and past Executive Director of the District Six Museum in Cape Town. The theme of this conversation will be Memorializing Sites of Community and Displacement. Refreshments will be provided.
Where: National Public Housing Museum, 919 South Ada Street, Chicago, IL
Meet at: Ground floor of the Museum
When: Saturday, Dec. 14, 11:00am-1:00pm
Cost: $25
Capacity: 25, Sign-up Required
Transportation: Public Transportation 65 Bus (10 mins) or Uber/Lyft/Taxi (8 mins) or Walking (22 mins)
Field Museum Tour
This event features a tour of the Field Museum
Where: The Field Museum, 1400 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
When: Sunday, Dec. 15, 10:00 am
Meet at: Inside front entrance at 1400 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive.
Cost: Free with ASA Meeting Badge
Capacity: 15, Sign up Required
Transportation: Uber/Lyft/Taxi (16 mins) or Public Transportation Red Line (35 mins)
Tour of Panafrica Exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
This event features a curator-led introduction and tour of exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago that explore the histories and cultures of Pan-Africanism. There are five exhibitions in total, including Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, which brings together roughly 350 objects produced from the 1920s to the present, in all mediums and across four continents: Africa, Europe, North America and South America.
Where: Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603
When: Sunday, Dec. 15, 10:30am
Meet at: Art Institute of Chicago’s Griffin Court. Guests should use the museum’s Modern Wing Entrance at 159 East Monroe.
Cost: Free with ASA Meeting Badge
Capacity: 60, Sign up Required
Transportation: Uber/Lyft/Taxi (8 mins) or Public Transportation Red Line (15 mins) or Walking (22 mins)