Talk at MoCA Dec. 5, 6 pm: Knowledge, Environment, and Continuity in the Goan Arts

[Kelli Wood]

Perhaps of interest:

Museum of Christian Art, December 5, 6 pm

Knowledge, Environment, and Continuity in the Goan Arts

Goa’s craftsmen, the constructors of temples and palaces, shipwrights and carpenters, makers of bangles and adornments, sculptors and gilders of gods and saints, smiths forging copper, iron, and gold, and purveyors of the stuff of everyday life, speak quietly in the annals of her past. Yet the expertise of Goan artists, their methods of making and knowledge of natural materials, persisted and persists. In this talk, Dr. Wood will explore the ecological locales, materials, and labor conditions which underpinned the creation of Goa’s customary crafts. The artistic production that boomed after the Portuguese presence in Goa was built upon economic, guild, and travel practices of Deccan artisans inherited from the pre-Portuguese period.

Bio

Dr. Kelli Wood is the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Wood has numerous publications on the visual and material culture of games and her book Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy is in press with Routledge, forthcoming 2026. 

Her research has turned toward art in Goa, India based on the gamesboards produced there in the Renaissance. She is currently in Panjim co-curating and launching the associated book, Materials & Makers: Goa Past and Present, which debuts at the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts on Dec. 6, 2025. Her second book Early Modern Goa: A Cosmopolis of Craft is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She is currently in Panjim co-curating and launching the associated book, Makers & Materials: Goa Past and Present, which debuts at the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts on Dec. 6, 2025. Museum work over the the last fifteen years includes at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, the Smart Museum, the Newberry Library gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art. She curated a permanent gallery of the 3 – 2 – 1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum which opened in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup. Her work has generously been supported by Samuel P. Kress Foundation, the Fulbright India, The National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti Berenson Fellowship for the global Renaissance, and the American Academy in Rome.

[Ernestine Carreira]

congratulations Kelli

Many thanks to share the information with us

If you have opportunity, in your conferences, to have an hybrid système (or zoom) we'll be very happy to assist with your students

um abraço de Aix en Provence

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