# Exhibiting Art from the French & Creole Speaking Caribbean & Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives ![Poster event](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-04/Screenshot%202026-04-06%20144939.jpg?h=72a42d90&itok=gx8JcAzs) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 30 - May 1, 2026** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center** 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 2R, Cambridge MA [ Streaming arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.youtube.com/@HutchinsCenter/featured) The symposium gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars, thinkers, and museum professionals to investigate the history, status, and future of exhibiting art from the **French-and Creole/Kreyol-speaking Caribbean and Amazonia** from plural sociological, historical, art historical, and museological perspectives. It is organized by **Audrey Célestine (NYU), Cécile Fromont (Harvard) and Claire Tancons (EXTEMPORA)** in conjunction with the **Alain Locke Gallery’s** upcoming exhibition **curated by Claire Tancons by invitation of Cécile Fromont "Van Lévé: Sovereign Visions of the Creole and Maroon Americas and Amazonia (September 22, 2026-June 5, 2027)".** *This event is presented in collaboration with*[ *Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center*](https://lockegallery.fas.harvard.edu/) ## Agenda Open all sections Close all sections ### Thursday Apr 30, 2026 expand\_more ### **1 to 1:30pm |** **Welcome & Introduction** **Audrey Célestine, Cécile Fromont, Claire Tancons** ### **1:30 to 3:30pm |** **A Vast Caribbean** *Afro-Asia Tremblement: Wifredo Lam, Malaury Eloi Paisley, Kelly Sinnapah Mary,* **Tao Leigh Goffe (Hunter College, City University of New York)** *Oral Traditions/Contemporary Art: New Epistemologies in the, Caribbean and Indian Ocean,* **Usha Reena Rungoo (Harvard University)** *Exhibitions and Schools of Modern Art from Fort-de-France to Abidjan, 1940s-1980s,* **Joshua I. Cohen (Stanford University)** ### **3:45 to 5:45pm |** **France /Antilles: The Politics of Caribbean Art** *Sowing Wind, Reaping Whirlwind - or How to Institute Art as a French Caribbeanist?,* **Claire Tancons (Independent Curator and Scholar)** *Salon des Refusés: Art Criticism without History in the French-Speaking Caribbean,* **Erica Moiah James (University of Miami)** *White Panic or the Myth of the Poisoner,* **Michael Roch (Writer)** ### Friday May 1, 2026 expand\_more ### **8:45am to 10:45am |** **Lost & Found: Histories of Caribbean Art & Artists** *Colonial Entanglements between Haiti/Saint-Domingue and the Paris Art World,* **Meredith Martin (New York University)** *Afro-Indigenous Constellations in the Guianas,* **Justin Brown (Boston College)** *The “Lost” Art of French Caribbean Modernists (1920-1960): Approaches to Excavation and Display,* **Denise Murrell (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)** ### **11:00am to 12:15pm |** **Poetics of Knowledge** *At the Edges of Paradise: Urban Imaginaries of the Post-Colonial Caribbean City,* **Cédrine Scheidig (Artist)** *Sanza, Banza, Lambi: Reactivating the Material Archive of Caribbean Music,* **Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry (Institut national d’histoire de l’art & EHESS, Paris)** ### **1:30pm to 3:30pm |** **Public Facing** *From Curiosity to Art: Six Paintings’ Journey from the Caribbean to Cambridge and around Harvard Yard,* **Marina Kliger (Independent Curator/Harvard Art Museum)** *How to Document and Promote Caribbean Art Today? Building a Stronger Artistic and Cultural Future Inspired by Alain Locke’s New Negro Progressive Theories,* **Mickaël B. Caruge (Artist and Independent Scholar)** *Exhibiting Race, Apprehending Race: Museums and Their Publics in 21st-Century France,* **Audrey Célestine (New York University)** See also:- [ Cambridge ](/locations/cambridge-office) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.drclas.harvard.edu/node/1589406/event-feed.ics) Copy link link