Special thanks to Mr. Robert E. Holmes, Member of the Board of Overseers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

NYU Villa La Pietra’s artistic assets include a collection of Blackamoors—a series of sculptured images of Africans in various states of servitude and decoration. ‘Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings’ is a collaborative project between Villa La Pietra and NYU’s Africana studies. This collaborative project will bring together an inter-disciplinary group that includes historians, art historians, photographers, a sculptor, filmmaker, musician, choreographer and writers to respond to the objects and produce new works that will be collectively exhibited in Florence and New York in the first instance and later in other NYU Global sites.