TREASURED CIGAR BOX designed byApril Martin Chartrand (2012) 2 of 2

Sunday, October 7, 2012

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