NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is hosting two public talks that will examine some diverse subjects, from art and culture of North Africa to a look at how incarcerated people create art. On Wednesday, Abdessamad El Montassir, an artist-in-residence at the college, will discuss his work in photography and film that explores questions of memory, trauma, and the environment in North Africa, particularly in the Sahara Desert. “Marking Time,” which was also named a Smithsonian Book of the Year, shows hows “the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art,” according to press notes. “The beauty in these often painful images … powerfully reclaims the visual idea of what it means to be imprisoned,” the New York Times Book Reviews says. Fleetwood’s talk, which is part of an endowed Smith program called The Miller Lecture in Art and Art History, takes place at 5:30 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium in Wright Hall.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 20, 2023 03:04 UTC