Dr. Amanda Hellman AGAS Lecture

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“Exploration, Excavation, Preservation: the political and social history of museums in Nigeria during the colonial period”

Dr. Amanda H. Hellman is the curator of African art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. Her upcoming exhibition, And I Must Scream, features contemporary artists who use the visual trope of the monster to examine inconceivable acts such as environmental destruction, displacement, human rights violations, and corruption. Other exhibitions include DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance; The Carlos as Catalyst; Between the Sweet Water and the Swarm of Bees; and Southern Connections: Bearden in Atlanta. Her research on museum development in West and East Africa reveals how heritage formation and artistic practice are inextricably linked. Amanda has more than 10 years of teaching experience at the college level and has taught in the art departments at Emory University, Oglethorpe University, and Agnes Scott College. Most recently she has published “Die and Do: Egungun as a form of resistance and recovery,” in Visible Man: Fahamu Pecou and “To Store is to Save: Kenneth C. Murray and the founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos,” in Museum Storage and Meaning. Amanda received a B.A. from Georgetown University, an M.A. from Williams College, and she obtained an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. from Emory University.