Albany Museum of Art Echoes: A Creative Response Open Mic Event to feature performing artists
Original Works Inspired by the Echoes of the Past Exhibition Will Be Showcased on Thursday, Dec 4
ALBANY, Ga. ─ Artists, writers, and performers inspired by the African art in the Echoes of the Past exhibition at the Albany Museum will perform original work at 5:30 pm Thursday, Dec 4, at Echoes: A Creative Response Open Mic at the AMA. The event is free and open to the public.
Poets, storytellers, musicians, spoken word artists, performers, and writers were invited to submit original creative responses inspired by the exhibition. “The selected works will be showcased during Thursday’s performances,” AMA Director of Education and Public Programming Annie Van Oteghem said.
Echoes of the Past is the first comprehensive survey of African art at the Albany Museum of Art since From African Hands, which was first exhibited in 1971. Across the Haley, East, and Hodges Galleries, museum visitors encounter more than 150 works of art, drawn primarily from the AMA’s holdings and enriched by significant loans from the North Carolina Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, and the Savannah African Art Museum.
A brief welcome and introduction to Echoes of the Past, its history, and the intention of the event will precede the live performances. Themes expected to be explored include heritage and ancestry, cultural memory and preservation, the tension between tradition and modernity, ritual, religion, spirituality, the impact of Western perceptions on African art, and personal reflection or community history connected to African art or diaspora identity.
Those with questions can contact Annie Van Oteghem at annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com or call her at 229.439.8400.
- Echoes of the Past is Sept 4, 2025-Jan 3, 2026 in the Haley, East, and Hodges Galleries.
- A Legacy Built with Nature: Menaboni at 130 is Sept 4, 2025-Jan 3, 2026 in the McCormack Gallery.
- 2nd annual Juried Southwest Georgia Student Art Exhibition is Nov 15, 2025-Jan 3, 2026, in the West Gallery.
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