Rites and Passages: Selected Artifacts from the Marietta College African Art Collection

The exhibition runs through April 16th and it is comprised of works of art from Western and Central Africa. All of the selected pieces revolve around the themes of “Rites and Passages.” Most of the cultures included in the show have animistic belief systems, through reverence of nature, deities, and ancestors they commune with the invisible realms. The pieces selected are items that illustrate cultural mediation between the profane and sacred.