Erica DiBenedetto works on exhibitions related to Africa and the African Diaspora as a curatorial associate in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Erica’s writing projects concern the boundaries of art history as a discipline, often focusing on examples of modern and contemporary art that incorporate other fields of knowledge, such as anthropology and architecture. These subjects allow her to rethink metaphorical and spatial dividing lines of various kinds, from disciplinary structures to geographical borders. She holds a PhD from Princeton University and an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.
In the mid-1980s, over the course of three years and across three continents, feminist artist Everlyn Nicodemus (born 1954, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania) gathered together women to discuss their everyday experiences. From these conversations, which took place in Skive, Denmark; Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; and Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, she produced a series of seventy-five paintings and related poems that…
