Art Gallery of Ontario Creates Global Africa Department

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The Art Gallery of Ontario is establishing a new department to connect visitors to the arts of Africa and its diaspora.

It will focus on expanding both collections and exhibitions of historic, modern and contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora.

The department will be led by curator Julie Crooks, formerly associate curator of photography. She joined the gallery in 2017 and has organized exhibitions that include Free Black North and Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires.

The gallery also announced a new support group, Friends of Global Africa and the Diaspora, which will support the department’s work and help create a more dynamic forum for community voices.

“Engaging with the art of Global Africa must be central to any program that presents a global view of visual culture, because its multiple histories and influences intersect, deepen and complicate in so many ways our understanding of Western and contemporary art," says Stephan Jost, the gallery's director.

Source: Art Gallery of Ontario