Visit to the De Young Museum
Lelilah Babirye: We Have A History
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Please join your fellow alumni for a visit to the "Lelilah Babirye: We Have A History" exhibition at San Francisco's De Young Museum. More information is below, and on the De Young Museum's website. Children are welcome!
Sunday, September 22
Tour starts at 11 a.m.
(meet in lobby)
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, 94118
Please RSVP by September 6 to ensure a ticket.
This event is hosted by HLSA and co-sponsored by Morrison & Foerster LLP
About Lelilah Babirye
Born in Kampala, Uganda, and based in New York, Lelilah Babirye is known for her highly expressive, ambiguously gendered sculptures in ceramic, wood, and discarded objects. Reclaiming ceramic and wood-carving traditions from western and central Africa, she hand builds her ceramics, firing them with expressive glazes, while she whittles, scorches, and burnishes her wood sculptures. As a final touch, she adorns them with wire, bicycle chains, inner tubes, and other found metals and materials. The sculptures, which range in scale from towering totemic forms to busts, talismans, and masks, are portraits of her LGBTQ+ community. Babirye’s work speaks to the power of reclaiming personal and cultural identity through artistic practices, historical narratives, and cultural traditions.
This exhibition, the artist’s first solo museum show in the United States, highlights the connection between past and present that is at the heart of the Museum's Contemporary African Art program.
Hope to see you there!
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Event Information
Where:
De Young Museum
Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
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