We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe Film screening and Questions with Director Fred Kuwornu

[Edith Ellis]

*We Were Here: The Untold History of  Black Africans in Renaissance Europe*


*Film screening and Questions with Director Fred Kuwornu*Thursday, April 2,
2026 at 6pm
Krinovitz Hall, Hawkins Hall

*Fred Kudjo Kuwornu *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.

*We Were Here **– The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance
Europe*, exhibited at the *Central Pavilion of the 60**ᵗʰ International Art
Exhibition *of the *Venice Biennale*, 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?

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.


[image: SOCIAL MEDIA 1 X1 DIRECTOR FRED KUWORNU.pdf.jpg]


*Questions or concerns? *
*email the Art museum OFFICE** ARTMUSEUM at PLATTSBURGH.EDU
<artmuseum at plattsburgh.edu>*
*or DEI office diversity at plattsburgh.edu <diversity at plattsburgh.edu>*
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