Educational
The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond
From October 29, 2023 through June 2, 2024
- The Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E. Young Dr. North, Westwood
Free
(Still image Patrisse Cullors, ‘They Are with Us: Oya in the Grove,' 2023; video.
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Courtesy of the Fowler Museum )
The exhibition The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond brings together more than 100 sacred artworks from Nigeria, Benin and across the Yoruba diaspora in Brazil, Cuba and the United States. View carved sculpture, beadwork, costumes and other art forms that help tell the story of "continuities and innovations" within the religious material culture of the Yoruba Atlantic. The museum is open Wednesdays through Sundays.