The DSPP Arts Committee presents "Understanding and Collecting African Tribal Art"   Ms. Joy Christie and Dr. Gerry Birdwell

Saturday
May 10, 2003

Cocktails 6:30 pm
Program 7pm

Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology ARTS Committee invites you to our last Arts event of 2002-2003. On Saturday evening May 10, Christie's Gallery owner, Ms. Joy Christie and her husband, Dr. Gerry Birdwell, will present a program, Understanding and Collecting African Tribal Art, at the home of Sandra Pitts and Steven Seidenfeld.

Having researched and collected important African art works for many years from renowned world collections, museums and direct sources in Africa, Ms. Christie and Dr. Birdwell are recognized as informed collectors of tribal African art, and they love to educate those curious about African art collecting. Their ambitious program for the evening will present the arts of Africa from a combined art-historical-psychological perspective.

The program will begin with an historical exploration of the evolving basis for collecting African art, its position as adjunct to and influence on Western art with special appeal to certain Western artists and to psychoanalysts, its political and moral functions, and the diverse aesthetics illustrated by African sculptors from various tribes such as Fang and Songye. The program will move to an exploration of strategies for becoming informed and for collecting African art, including estimating the future value of various categories of tribal art. Accompanying and illustrating the Christie-Birdwell presentation will be a selection of African artifacts from the speakers' personal collection. Opportunity for questions, answers, and discussion will follow the talk.

There will be a brief cocktail hour at 6:30, followed by the program at 7:00 sharp! A cocktail-buffet supper will follow the program. Reservations for this program are required and must be received by Saturday, May 3, as space is limited and May 3 is the deadline for the caterer. There is no charge for this event (FREE!!!)

For reservations, please contact Judith Samson at 214-750-7692 or at jgsamson@swbell.net  (please include your telephone number and/or email address for confirmation). Judith will call or email you to provide you with the address and directions for getting to the Pitts-Seidenfeld home where the evening's program will be held.

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 Photos Courtesy of Christie's Gallery