California African American Museum presents

Treasured Cigar Box
Assemblage Explorations of the African Diaspora

Designed by April Martin Chartrand

                                    October 6 -March 31, 2013

 

Location: Research Library 

600 State Drive - Exposition Park,

Los Angeles, CA 90037  (213) 744-7432    
Attn:  Denise McIver, Librarian 

Tues - Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 11am-5pm

http://www.caamuseum.org/web_pages/research_library.htm

 

Chartrand's Treasured Cigar Box series invites you into a world of the global slave trade perspectives between Africa, Europe, the Americas, and America (USA).  These multidimensional assemblage cigar boxes (three boxes) incorporate recycled and found objects, keys, money, and hand painted paper.

This series bridges the gap by connecting the major Colonial slave trade shareholders of the New World.  Treasured Cigar Box (series) offers knowledge and research into the deeper meaning on how the exploitative, atrocious and brutal servitude, and harvesting of tobacco by circa 12-million African Slaves fueled the beginnings of the modern day corporations.

 

You Tube Book Trailer:  http://youtu.be/zyJto5AYooQ

The San Francisco Public Library presents Treasured Cigar Box Assemblage Explorations of the African Diaspora Designed by April Martin Chartrand

June 23, 2012 - August 2, 2012

101 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor African American Collection

San Francisco, CA

Hours: Open during library hours.

Chartrand's Treasured Cigar Box series invites you into a world of the global slave trade perspectives between Africa, Europe, the Americas, and America (USA).  These multidimensional assemblage cigar boxes incorporate recycled and found objects, keys, money, and hand painted paper.

This series bridges a historical gap by connecting the major Colonial slave trade shareholders and their cultivation of tobacco products in the New World.  The larger European Crowns (a constitution Monarchy) which expanded their empires were: Portugal, Spain, France, Britain/England, Dutch/Netherlands, and America.  Theses countries established global trading companies, built fortified harbors and trading settlements along the coastlines of the African continent (Gore, St. Louise, Elmira, and Cape Coast . . .).  For example, the French East Indian Company was one of the first such Gold Coast corporations.  All of these counties traded in various commodities, and parceled out newly colonized territories throughout the Triangular Trade system (West Africa, Caribbean, Americas, and Europe).

The Treasured Cigar Box series offers knowledge and research into the deeper meaning of how their exploitative practices in the brutal servitude of the African slaves reaped fortunes for the Colonizers.  Finally, the planting and harvesting of tobacco by African Slaves fueled the beginnings of the modern day global corporations.

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/sometimes-a-cigar-box-isnt-a-cigar-box/Content?oid=2186229

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