Drop-in series: New course studies the visual arts of the African World
Inspired by Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford University in which he shared how auditing a calligraphy class in college inspired him years later to add diverse fonts to Apple computers, we set out to visit classes around campus that make us think differently about what it means to be educated. This is one in a series of drop-ins.
January 6, 2021 at 10:00am
Last fall, the FIU Art + Art History Department launched a course that examines the continuities between African arts and the arts within an African diaspora.
The undergraduate class Introduction to the Visual Arts of the African World (ARH 3511) taught by professor Alvin L. Pondexter, is the first course of its kind to be offered at FIU through the Department of Art + Art History, and it s open to students of all majors.