Ceramics History Seminar Lecture set for Sept. 21

ALFRED, NY--Annissa Malvoisin, Bard Graduate Center/Brooklyn Museum Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts of Africa, will present the Fall 2022 History of Ceramic Art, Craft, and Design: Global Flows seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:35 p.m., via Zoom.

Malvoisin’s guest lecture, titled “Limitless Lines: Meroitic Painted Ceramics,” is coordinated by Meghen Jones, associate professor of art history at Alfred University, and is supported by the Division of Ceramic Art, Alfred University School of Art and Design.

Malvoisin’s research specializes in Egyptology, Nubian archaeology, and Museum Studies. Her doctoral thesis investigates the ceramic production and trade industry during Meroitic Nubia and its potential far-reaching networks linking the Nile Valley to Iron Age West African cultures. She examines these networks by identifying artistic similarities on pottery which she combines with piecing together the objects’ biography to better understand Nubian collections in North American museums. She also explores questions of provenance for object-based research in museum collections.

She earned her Master of Museum Studies from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and incorporates museum theory and practice into her academic and professional work. She has worked with collections at the Royal Ontario Museum in the Department of Arts and Culture: Global Africa and in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, as well as with the Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition at Arizona State University.