Professor Steven Nelson is the director of the UCLA African Studies Center and a Professor of African American Art History at UCLA.
Professor Nelson's talk looked at works by artists such as Mark Bradford, Houston Conwill, Moshekwa Langa, and Julie Mehretu. Their works examined many aspects of African History and culture in a variety of mediums and spaces.
As an undergrad Nelson was a studio arts major at Yale University and received his PHD from Harvard University. After teaching at Tufts University and Wellesley College Nelson went on to teach at UCLA. Nelson has published books such as, From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture in and out of Africa and, Savages on the Seine: The Mousgoum Dome at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition.
This talk was recorded on March, 2nd, 2016, at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
