This week, we got to talk to Dr. Laurian Bowles for our second installment of “Profs Talk Art,” the series where Davidson professors talk about works in the collection of Van Every/Smith Galleries through the lens of their discipline.
Dr. Bowles is the Chair of the Anthropology department. Her work in Africana Studies and Cultural Anthropology focuses on visual storytelling, women’s activism, and the visual economies of women’s labor in Ghana and the African Diaspora. She talked about the Nigerian-Swedish-American artist, Mikael Owunna, and his photograph titled 4 Queer African Women in the Snow, from Limitless Africans. Watch the video here (subtitles available).
What do you think of this work? We have over four thousand works spanning five centuries in our collection. If you want to see more of our collection, you can view the collection around campus, online through the collection portal on our website, and by appointment in collection storage at the Belk Visual Arts Center. We look forward to your visit!
– Isabel Smith ’24