UCLA/Getty Distinguished Speaker Series: Erica P. Jones & Carlee S. Forbes Friday, January 30, 2026 @ 11:00 AM PT
Glenn Wharton
Professor, UCLA Department of Art History
Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair,
UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritageinvites you to attend
Professor, UCLA Department of Art History
Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair,
UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritageinvites you to attend
UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series:
“Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting
Meanings in African Arts”
Meanings in African Arts”
Featuring:
Erica P. Jones
Senior Curator of African Arts and Manager of Curatorial Affairs,
Fowler Museum at UCLA
and
Carlee S. Forbes
Associate Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Baltimore Museum of Art
Friday, January 30, 202611:00 a.m. PT
Livestreaming via Zoom
About the presentation:
Join Erica P. Jones, senior curator of African arts and manager of curatorial affairs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and Carlee S. Forbes, associate curator of African and Oceanic art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, for a lecture on the research and making of “Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting Meanings in African Arts,” a new exhibition that examines how historical African objects have accrued layered meanings as they moved through different hands, contexts and interpretations.Following the lecture, Jones and Forbes will be joined by Glenn Wharton for a conversation on how curatorial and conservation practices intersect in reinterpreting museum collections, provenance and colonial legacies.
Join Erica P. Jones, senior curator of African arts and manager of curatorial affairs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and Carlee S. Forbes, associate curator of African and Oceanic art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, for a lecture on the research and making of “Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting Meanings in African Arts,” a new exhibition that examines how historical African objects have accrued layered meanings as they moved through different hands, contexts and interpretations.Following the lecture, Jones and Forbes will be joined by Glenn Wharton for a conversation on how curatorial and conservation practices intersect in reinterpreting museum collections, provenance and colonial legacies.
For more information about the speakers, click here.
This event was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Jeffrey P. Cunard.
