Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries.

Every museum display is the result of collaboration. In this “behind-the-scenes stories” talk, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, curator of African art, highlights objects whose presentations benefited from recent collaborations with CMA conservators and mount makers, a contemporary Nigerian artist, and a bird expert.

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Image: Container (detail), c. 1920. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, possibly Ọ̀yọ́ region, Yorùbá-style carver. Wood, paint, and iron alloy; 45.7 cm.