The University of Miami’s Department of Art & Art History and Africana Studies present “Slavery to Self Determination,” an art exhibition celebrating Black History Month.

The show, curated by international art curator Ludlow Bailey, will run through March 2 at the University’s College of Arts and Sciences Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive, on the Coral Gables campus. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

The exhibition will include a series of lectures and will feature the works of African-American artists Loni Johnson and T. Elliot Mensa, Haitian-American artist Guy Syllien, Ethiopian artist Merid Tafesse, and Ghanaian photographer and historian Edmund Abaka. The show will be in many ways a visual play about the spiritual journey of five African Diaspora Artists in search of enlightenment, authenticity, and self determination in a vastly complicated and challenging world. A panel discussion with the artists and curator will be held on Tuesday, February 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the CAS Gallery.

Bailey has curated shows in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. He is a lifelong student of Global Diaspora Affairs. He holds degrees from both Brown and Columbia Universities. He currently resides on the island of St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.

For more information on the CAS Gallery, please contact Milly Cardoso, gallery director, at 305-284-3161 or email [email protected].

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