Join us for an evening with curator Felicia Mings of the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery. Mings will discuss the visual motifs, materials, and circulation of a selection of Denis Williams (1923–1998)’s less studied paintings and book illustrations as means to explore the breadth of his intellectual engagements and his role in defining the arts of Guyana in the mid- to late twentieth century.
A Material Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora lecture.
Object LabsAt BGC, we use an object-centered approach to advance the study of the decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Join our student educators before our April and May public events to learn about some of the objects in BGC’s Study Collection. Each week we will showcase three objects carefully selected from the collection, which includes over 3,000 objects in a variety of media.
April 9, 16, 23, and 30; May 13
38 West 86th Street, 5–6 pm
Founded in 2011, the BGC Study Collection supports student research by providing opportunities for hands-on, close-up examination of objects. Learn more about the BGC Study Collection here.
Felicia Mings is a curator at the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University in Toronto, Canada. She focuses on interpreting and presenting modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on arts of Africa and the Caribbean, along with their diasporas. Mings’s recent curatorial projects include the Toronto iteration of Charles Campbell:
An Ocean to Livity (2025), Maryam Taghavi:
Unfolding Worlds (2025), Dele Adeyemo’s
From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire (2023), and Meleko Mokgosi:
Imaging Imaginations (2023). Felicia holds a master of arts in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College.
