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Arturo Lindsay b. September 1946 in Colon, Republic of Panama |
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Dr. Arturo Lindsay is an artist-scholar who conducts ethnographic research on
African spiritual and aesthetic retentions in contemporary American cultures. His
research findings are manifested in works of art, as well as, scholarly lectures and
articles. A native of Colon, a seaport city on the Caribbean coast of the Republic of
Panama, Lindsay migrated with his parents to New York City at age 12 and settled in
Brooklyn, New York
Lindsay’s work is represented in important private and public collections
nationwide and abroad. As a scholar, Lindsay has lectured and published several essays
on New World African religious, spiritual, and aesthetic retentions. He is the editor of
Santería Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Art published by the Smithsonian
Institution Press. As an educator, Lindsay developed the Spelman College Summer Art
Colony to provide college students and emerging artists an opportunity to live and work
in the village of Portobelo, Panama each summer.
Dr. Lindsay is Professor of Art and Art History at Spelman College in Atlanta.
He received a DA from New York University and holds a
MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He was the 2006 Distinguished Batza Family Chair at Colgate University and
in 2005 he was the Kemp Distinguished Visiting Professor at Davidson College in
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