Artist, costume designer Eniola Dawodu to speak at UB

Published November 14, 2019

British-born Nigerian artist and costume designer Eniola Dawodu will speak at UB Nov. 20 as part of the Department of Theatre and Dance’s International Artistic and Cultural Exchange Lecture Series.

Her talk, titled “Release + Reframe: Ancestral Aesthetics, Collective Elevation,” will take place at 5 p.m. in 195 Alumni Arena, North Campus. It is free and open to the public.

Dawodu, who is based in Dakar, Senegal, and Brookyln, is engaged in the cultural archiving of narratives via African textiles and aesthetics of self-presentation. In her talk, she will speak to the narrative potency of ancestral African dress practices and the cultural significance of honoring one’s personal truth.

“I create echoes through time and space; the beauty, value and majesty of my ancestors and our stories,” she says. “We are infinite. Our power, excellence, wisdom and legacy continue to grow with time and through natural order.”

A reception in 190 Alumni Arena will follow the lecture.

The lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Humanities Institute’s Performance Research Workshop.