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Queensborough Community College to Debut African Art Exhibit This Week
Northeast Queens school's gallery will display more than 60 masks from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
More than 60 art pieces from West Africa will be on display at art gallery starting this week.
An exhibit of masks worn by a pan-African society of women known as the Bundu or Sande Society will debut at the gallery on April 19.
The Sande Society is an association of women from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The group initiates young women into African society as wives, mothers, social, economic and political leaders. Members of this society have political power conferred on them, as well as he responsibilities of promoting health and treating disease.
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The exhibition as well as the accompanying book by Africanist scholars Gavin H. Imperato and Pascal James Imperato will be open to the public from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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