Amy Schwartzott
Dr. Amy Schwartzott is Associate Professor of Art History at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University where she is Curator of University Galleries. Her research interests include African art (contemporary and historical); artists who utilize recycled materials (African and global expressions); and art as a tool for peace and post-conflict resolution. Recent research includes more diverse inquiry into both visual and performative cultures of contemporary Mozambican arts.Her...See more
Dr. Amy Schwartzott is Associate Professor of Art History at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University where she is Curator of University Galleries. Her research interests include African art (contemporary and historical); artists who utilize recycled materials (African and global expressions); and art as a tool for peace and post-conflict resolution. Recent research includes more diverse inquiry into both visual and performative cultures of contemporary Mozambican arts.Her recent publications include Unraveling and Welding Together: War's Transformative Influence on Contemporary Mozambican Art, in The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises (Oxford University Press, 2020); Recycling Discarded Histories to Chronicle Identities: Making Art from Waste in Mozambique, in Waste: Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion (¬¬¬¬Open Library of Humanities Journal, UK, 2019); Healing the Pain of War through Art - Mozambique's Grassroots Approach to Post-Conflict Resolution: Transfomação de Armas em Enxadas/Transforming Weapons into Plowshares, in Dialogues with Mozambique: Interdisciplinary Reflections, Readings and Approaches on Mozambican Studies (Brill, 2018). See less
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