African Hair Styles, Culture & ConsciousnessNever a Bad Hair Day
A touring exhibit of traditional African sculpture demonstrating the significance of African Hair Styles as Symbols of Culture & Consciousness
African Cultural Arts Preservers and Presenters
www.Africanarthba.com 215-387-2742
Presented through, August 28, 09 Philadelphia Parkway Library, West-wing gallery at 19th & Vine Street.
The exhibit subtitle “Never a Bad Hair Day” reflects the often heard notion expressed by African woman that see their hair as “problematic and unruly” verses their Crowning Glory. Many African women subscribe to the pervasive notion that there are so few styling options available for their natural hair, unless it has been chemically processed to death.
African hairstyles make a powerful cultural expression of beauty and a political statement against the dominant imposed culture and an expression of liberation. This exhibit demonstrates the huge variety of magnificent cultural relevant hairstyles available to African Women & their glorious Natural Hair.
African Hair Styles, Culture & Consciousness
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