Join guest speaker Dr. Paulette Richards for In the Image of God: Puppet Ministry and Object Performance in the Black Church.
Independent researcher Dr. Paulette Richards has taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University and Georgia Tech. During her time as a 2013-14 Fulbright Scholar in Senegal, she began to focus her multi-disciplinary interest in African Diasporan culture studies on puppets, masks and performing objects. In 2018, she co-curated the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit at the University of Connecticut's Ballard Institute and Museum with Dr. John Bell. Her book, Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States, was recently selected as a UNIMA-USA Nancy Staub Award winner for excellence in writing on the art of puppetry.
This event is sponsored by UCF's Department of English, Africana Studies, History, Women's and Gender Studies, and the College of Arts and Humanities.
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