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ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - This upcoming Thursday, Dec. 4th at 5:30 pm, artists, writers, and performers will perform their original work at Echoes: A Creative Response Open Mic at the Albany Museum of Art. The event is free and open to the public. Poets, storytellers, musicians, spoken word artists, performers, and writers submitted original creative responses inspired by the exhibition.

Since From African Hands, which was first exhibited in 1971, Echoes of the Past is the first comprehensive survey of African art at the Albany Museum of Art. Across the Haley, East, and Hodges Galleries, museum visitors encounter more than 150 works of art, drawn primarily from the AMA’s holdings and made possible 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.

Themes expected to be explored during the event 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 Van Oteghem at [email protected] or call her at 229.439.8400.

AMA EXHIBITIONS

• 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.
• 2^nd annual Juried Southwest Georgia Student Art Exhibition is Nov 15, 2025-Jan 3, 2026, in the West Gallery.

For more information about the AMA, please visit our website, www.albanymuseum.com, or call 229.439.8400. Be sure to follow AlbanyMuseumOfArt on Facebook and AlbanyMuseum on Instagram.

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