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Sarah Estrela

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Bio

Education: BA, 2015, Wheaton College, Norton, MA; MA, 2018, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Ph.D. ABD, Northwestern University. 

Curatorial Experience: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, 2018, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (Graduate Fellow); Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, December 2024, Art Institute of Chicago (Curatorial Research Associate). 

Publications: Artforum, New City Brazil. 

Awards: Liz Warnock Summer Research Grant; COSI Mellon Curatorial Research Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago; SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program; Barbara Smith Shanley Graduate Travel Fellowship.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This course explores African American art through a study of significant museum and gallery shows from the 1920s to the present. The course offers a survey of African American art through an examination of the institutions and also the conceptual contexts (or ideological framings) that have supported its presentation over the past 90 years. Exhibits such as 'Harlem on My Mind'; 'Freestyle'; 'Frequency'; 'Only Skin Deep'; and 'Let Your Motto Be Resistance,' among others, provide a context through culture.

Class Number

2287

Credits

3

Description

This course explores African American art through a study of significant museum and gallery shows from the 1920s to the present. The course offers a survey of African American art through an examination of the institutions and also the conceptual contexts (or ideological framings) that have supported its presentation over the past 90 years. Exhibits such as 'Harlem on My Mind'; 'Freestyle'; 'Frequency'; 'Only Skin Deep'; and 'Let Your Motto Be Resistance,' among others, provide a context through culture.

Class Number

2288

Credits

3