<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">We Were Here: The Untold History of  Black Africans in Renaissance Europe</span></i></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Film screening and Questions with Director Fred Kuw<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">o</span>rnu<br></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 6pm<br>Krin<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">o</span>vitz Hall, Hawkins Hall<br><br><b>Fred Kudjo Kuwornu </b>is an Afro-Italian and U.S. multi-hyphenate socially engaged artist, filmmaker, curator and scholar based in New York. His work bridges past and present, the seen and unseen, exploring identity and race through historical remixing of archival materials.<br><br><b><i>We Were Here </i></b><i>– The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe</i>, exhibited at the <b>Central Pavilion of the 60</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">ᵗʰ International Art Exhibition </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">of the <b>Venice Biennale</b>, sheds light on the overlooked presence of African and Black individuals in Renaissance Europe, highlighting their depiction in masterpieces by some of the era’s most celebrated artists. How did they come to Europe? Why were they portrayed? Were they truly all servants or enslaved? If the Black faces depicted in these Renaissance masterpieces could speak, what would they tell us?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Sponsored by the Plattsburgh State Art Museum, The Office of Diversity Equity & Inclusion and the Departments of Art & Design, Sociology and History, with support from the Student Association.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><img src="cid:ii_mmkq4q2r0" alt="SOCIAL MEDIA 1 X1 DIRECTOR FRED KUWORNU.pdf.jpg" width="181" height="181" style="margin-right: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><i style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(31,31,31)"><font size="1">Q<span class="gmail_default">uestions or concerns? </span></font></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:uppercase"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><i>email <span class="gmail_default">the Art museum </span>OFFICE</i></font></span><i style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:uppercase"> <a href="mailto:artmuseum@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">ARTMUSEUM@PLATTSBURGH.EDU</a></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:uppercase"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><i>or DEI office <a href="mailto:diversity@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">diversity@plattsburgh.edu</a></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;display:inline-block;line-height:18px"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase"><div style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;font-weight:400;text-transform:none"><div style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase"><br></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>