Kymberly S. Newberry is a PhD student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. She is the founder of “Siggi Dimanche,” an annual event which celebrates the 31 French speaking African countries and the French speaking African Diaspora.
Her research and scholarship focus on the contemporary artistic practices of the African continent, Museology as it relates to contemporary African art, the question of contemporary African art as a ‘disruption,’ as well and the curatorial dilemmas of contextualizing the material culture of the African continent once removed from its synaesthetic totality and placed in American art museums and other dynamic art spaces.
Kymberly has written two articles for the literary quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, detailing her reflections on two artworks selected from the recent exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum of Harlem.
The exhibition was on view at the Smith College Museum of Art.
Both pieces can be found here