Ethiopian Review readers might find this exhibition at the UCLA of interest:
Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art
Inscribing Meaning includes many works from Ethiopia, including illuminated liturgical texts in Ge’ez, healing scrolls, and paintings by contemporary artist Wosene Worke Kosrof. The exhibition brings together outstanding works from a range of periods, regions, genres, and peoples in order to consider the interplay between African art and the communicative power of graphic systems, language, and the written word. [more info here]
Inscribing Meaning recognizes that Africa’s long engagement with written and graphic systems is part of the broader, global history of writing and literacy. As always, admission is free. Inscribing Meaning will be open until February 2008.
We also wanted to bring your attention to our Women, Water and Wells: Photographs of West Africa by Gil Garcetti as it is closing in a few weeks on November 25. Garcetti’s photographs reveal the link between water and human health in West Africa—as well as the amazing progress that follows clean water. [more info here]
For more information please visit www.fowler.ucla.edu. We hope to see you here!
Stephanie Chi – Volunteer, Communications Department