Saturday, February 21, 2PM, In-Person, FREE

The thirty portraits in the exhibition Hamdia Traoré’s “Des marabouts de Djenné” and Muslim Portraiture in Mali  reflect the artist's intimate connections to the city’s people and deep history. Learned and devout, marabouts teach in Jenne’s over 50 Qur’anic schools, offer spiritual guidance, and treat ailments through their knowledge of the Qur’an. This public program will discuss Hamdia Traoré’s portraits of marabouts in relation to an earlier generation of Muslim portraiture, and will also consider the role of archives in preserving the history of West African photography.

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