Opening Session of Historic Benin Kingdom Museum Bronze-Making Fellowship
On January 11, 2025, at 11 a.m. ET, the Restitution Study Group (RSG) hosted the opening session of the Benin Kingdom Bronze-Making Fellowship, moderated by RSG Founder and Executive Director Deadria Farmer-Paellmann. The session featured special remarks by His Highness Prince Nosuyi Ovonramwen of the Benin Kingdom and Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely of Harlem’s “Royal Court.”
Fellows and Instructor included Jirah Joshua, a multidisciplinary artist and furniture design specialist (African American–Native American); Donna Lindo, a sculpture specialist (Jamaican); Joel Newman, a potter (Haitian); Sabina Paellmann, a painter and arts administrator (African American–German); Antonio Isuperio Pereira, Jr., an architect (Brazilian), and Professor Blake Hiltunen, a foundry expert and Pratt Institute Associate Professor (Finnish-American).
Mobilizers in attendance included Esther Xosei (Caribbean/UK), Sheila Camaroti Silva (Brazil/EU) and Tylon Washington RSG Director of Multimedia.
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