Panafrica Days: Full Schedule

5:00pm MST

Artist Talk: Betye Saar

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm MST

This exhibition offers the first sustained look at a pivotal moment in Betye Saar’s career, when a visit to Chicago’s Field Museum in 1974 transformed the way she conceived of herself as an artist. A display of more than 60 objects—including a ceremonial robe from Cameroon, costumes and jewelry designed by Saar, drawings, photos, archival materials, and more—casts new light on the way Saar’s early career in costume design informed her pioneering work in assemblage and installation. Let’s Get It On is presented as part of a series of exhibitions and events linked to Panafrica: Histories, Aesthetics, Politics, a multi-year research project at the Neubauer Collegium that is exploring the connections between Pan-African politics and culture.

Exhibition curated by Dieter Roelstraete.
Text by the Neubauer Collegium.

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Speakers

Betye Saar

Artist

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm MST
Neubauer Collegium

Receptions, Reception

Host Organization Neubauer Collegium
Location Hyde Park

5:00pm MST

Wakaliga Uganda

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm MST

The Renaissance Society

Established in 2005, the Kampala based film studio has developed a model that offers a counter-current to the dominant production paradigm, working with ultra-low budgets and community groups to produce action movies that present a refraction of the violent films coming out of Hollywood. At the Ren— the collective’s first wide-ranging exhibition in the US—they will present a new work, If Uganda Was America, alongside other recent films within a collaborative, customized installation.

Text by the Renaissance Society
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Speakers

Wakaliga Uganda

Collective

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm MST
The Renaissance Society

Receptions, Reception

Host Organization The Renaissance Society
Location Hyde Park

5:00pm MST

Mwangi Hutter: You Begin to See the Signs

Saturday March 8, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm MST

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to share the upcoming exhibition in Chicago by artist duo Mwangi Hutter, entitled You Begin to See the Signs. The show will be on view from March 4 to April 16, 2025, and will mark the artists' third solo exhibition with the gallery and first in Chicago.

The exhibition will be on view in tandem with the group exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica at the Art Institute Chicago, which includes Static Drift (2001), part of the museum's permanent collection.

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Speakers

Ingrid Mwangi

Artist

Robert Hutter

Artist

Saturday March 8, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm MST
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Receptions, Gallery Opening

Host Organization Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Location Loop/Streeterville

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