Calls with CURA: Stories from the Art World
‘Calls with CURA: Stories from the Art World’ is brought to you by the CURA Art team, recorded during an unprecedented year, and as a celebration of our community. We are fortunate enough to know and work with some of the best in the art sector and are delighted to be sharing their fascinating and inspiring stories with you throughout this series. Hear interviews with artists, collectors, curators and conservators, amongst other professionals. We hope you enjoy learning more about the wonderful world we work in. .
Calls with CURA: Stories from the Art World
Alayo Akinkugbe - Art Historian
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Georgia Powell and Liza Shapiro
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Season 1
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Episode 16
Alayo Akinkugbe is currently reading history of art at Cambridge University, having grown up in Lagos, Nigeria. After studying she hopes to become a curator, whilst pushing the globalization of African Art.
We met Alayo on Instagram, through her incredible account @ablackhistoryofart – which highlights the overlooked Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day.
With growing need for reform in terms of diversity in the field of art history, we wanted to hear more from Alayo about her studies of the subject and her aspirations for her future career.