{"id":3787,"date":"2011-11-02T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2011-11-02T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:15:45","slug":"prof-tim-lake-to-speak-at-fort-wayne-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/11\/02\/prof-tim-lake-to-speak-at-fort-wayne-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Tim Lake:  Kente at Fort Wayne Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of English Tim Lake will speak in\u00a0Fort Wayne, IN on November 10,\u00a0at a\u00a0pre-event for the exhibit <span style=\"color: #3366ff\">&#8220;Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/11\/Tim-Lake-wrapped-quilt.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3788\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/11\/Tim-Lake-wrapped-quilt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"117\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">African-American Identity.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0 The exhibit will be displayed at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art from\u00a0Nov. 12, 2011 \u2013 Jan. 8, 2012.\u00a0 <em>Kente<\/em> is a brightly colored, geometrically patterned cloth made by the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo.\u00a0 &#8220;In many African American communities across the United States, kente is much more than mere cloth: it is a symbol of African pride and a powerful cultural icon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Lake will be part of a panel\u00a0for\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">&#8220;Wrapped in Pride: Film and Discussion&#8221;<\/span> on the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne campus.\u00a0 The film\u00a0will be followed by a discussion led by Dr. Quinton Dixie, with <strong>Prof. Tim Lake of Wabash College<\/strong>, Fey Fey Moussou of Fort Wayne, and Su&#8217;ad Abdul Khabeer of Purdue University.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fwmoa.org\/exhibitions\/view\/56\">Click here<\/a> for more information about the exhibit, the Nov. 10 film screening, and related programs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<br \/>\nFort Wayne Museum of Art<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of English Tim Lake will speak in\u00a0Fort Wayne, IN on November 10,\u00a0at a\u00a0pre-event for the exhibit &#8220;Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African-American Identity.&#8221;\u00a0 The exhibit will be displayed at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}