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Three paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof were in the groundbreaking exhibition that opened October 14th, 2007 at the Fowler Museum/UCLA in Los Angeles. The exhibition, Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, which ran through February 17, 2008, "...brings together outstanding works of art from a range of periods, regions, genres, and peoples in order to consider the interplay between African art and the communicative power of graphic systems, language, and the written word." Wosene's works in the exhibit included, from the Fowler Museum permanent collection, "Where It All Begins," and from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art's collection - "The Preacher III". A third painting, Color of Words IX, also included in this show, is from a private collection.

This exhibition was a first major attempt to present writing and graphic systems that originated in Africa, some more than 4000 years ago. With the Western focus on alphabets as the major basis of literacy, many ancient African graphic systems have been overlooked or neglected in cultural and art historical research. This collaborative exhibition, developed by the National Museum of African Art's curator, Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, and the chief curator at the Fowler Museum, Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts, opened originally at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, in May, 2007 through August, 2007.

The exhibition catalogue, which includes images of the more than 100 artworks and articles by the curators, art historians, and several by the artists themselves, is available through the National Museum of African Art and Fowler museum stores, or through Amazon. For further information on this exhibition, contact the Fowler Museum at 310.825.4361 or e-mail fowler@fowler.ucla.edu

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