ADAMA Arts Salon #39

ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.

Join us for ADAMA's upcoming in-person Arts Salon. Dr. Fahamu Pecou to moderate a conversation on the topic of African Cultural Retentions, with panelist Ayana V. Jackson. 

About Moderator: Dr. Fahamu Pecou is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose works combine observations on hip-hop, fine art, and popular culture to address concerns around contemporary representations of Black men. Through paintings, performance art, and academic work, Dr. Pecou confronts the performance of Black masculinity and Black identity, challenging and expanding the reading, performance, and expressions of Blackness.

Ayana V. Jackson: Born in New Jersey (1977) with adopted family in Ghana, Jackson lives and works between Brooklyn, New York, Johannesburg and Paris. Her experiences in three continents infuse and inform her historically charged and deeply relevant practice. She weds her sociologist’s background with in-depth research into the history of photography, African religions, fashion history and cutting-edge Afrofuturist philosophy to create new works that generate profound impact.