{"id":58311,"date":"2021-10-17T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/mystery-motion-african-american-masking-and-spirituality-mardi-gras\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:38:27","slug":"mystery-motion-african-american-masking-and-spirituality-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/mystery-motion-african-american-masking-and-spirituality-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest curators Kim Vaz-Deville and Ron Bechet of Xavier University of Louisiana explore this topic through the presentation of more than two dozen Black masking Indian suits, carnival costumes, and masking objects juxtaposed with extraordinary artifacts from the African continent that are representative of the cultures, religions, and artistry that influenced their creation. Those objects are on loan from the collections of the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly\u2013Jacques Chirac in Paris and Southern University at New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>African Americans in New Orleans have long used Mardi Gras as the framework for spiritual expressions drawn from African, Islamic, Native American, and European belief systems. <em>Mystery in Motion<\/em> celebrates how Black masking Indians, skeleton gangs, Baby Dolls, and the traditional parade krewes Oshun and Nefertiti incorporated spiritual themes from a variety of sources to create profound Mardi Gras masks, costumes, and rituals grounded in shared experience. \u201cThere is so much happening on Mardi Gras day, it is impossible to take in all the sights, sounds, and experiences. The intent of the exhibition is to offer an opportunity to contemplate the spiritual dimensions of African American Mardi Gras masking that are hidden in plain view,\u201d said guest curator Kim Vaz-Deville.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition features Black masking Indian suits on loan from their creators. For example, Big Chief Alfred Doucette\u2019s Marie Laveau suit depicts the voodoo queen\u2019s tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 surrounded by the Spy Boy, Wild Man, and Flag Boy of Doucette\u2019s tribe. It also shows the Flaming Arrows as well and the queen awakening her spirit on Mardi Gras morning. Golden Eagles Spy Boy Floyd Edwards\u2019s tribute to Mansa Musa, the 14th-century emperor of the Mali Empire in West Africa, points to recent Islamic inspirations. Spiritual healing traditions inform the suits of the Mystic Medicine Man, who looks to both the Congolese Nganga and the Haitian Vodou Erzulie family of spirits, and Janet \u201cSula\u201d Evans, Medicine Woman of the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors, who based her 2018 suit on the West African spirit of Nana Baruku.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mystery in Motion<\/em> is on display in New Orleans through Nov. 28, 2021. After the exhibition\u2019s run at the Presbyt\u00e8re, it will be integrated into\u00a0 a larger exhibit, <em>Les Black Indians de La Nouvelle-Orl\u00e9ans<\/em>, at the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly\u2013Jacques Chirac. That exhibit is scheduled to open in fall 2022. For more information about the exhibition and associated programming, visit louisianastatemuseum.org.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Author: This article was written by the Louisiana State Museum Staff and published in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/\"><em><u>64 parishes<\/u><\/em><\/a><em>, the quarterly magazine of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Link to original article <a href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/mystery-in-motion\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on the exhibition, visit the <em>Mystery in Motion<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mysteryinmotion.info\/\"><u>website <\/u><\/a>to consult its digital resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58309,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[236,227,218],"app_city_tax":[224],"app_event_type":[242],"class_list":["post-58311","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-museums","app_discipline-performing-arts","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-nola","app_event_type-exhibition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/mystery-motion-african-american-masking-and-spirituality-mardi-gras\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guest curators Kim Vaz-Deville and Ron Bechet of Xavier University of Louisiana explore this topic through the presentation of more than two dozen Black masking Indian suits, carnival costumes, and masking objects juxtaposed with extraordinary artifacts from the African continent that are representative of the cultures, religions, and artistry that influenced their creation. 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