This class discusses Issac Belisario, a Spanish Portuguese Jamaican Jewish artist (1785-1849) and Sarah Anita Clunis (1973) an art historian who grew up in a Sephardi Jewish family in Kingston surrounded by Belisario’s images of Africans and their traditional masquerade traditions. The works of Belisario were instrumental in Clunis’ negotiation of her identity as a Sephardi Jew of African descent living in the Caribbean and shaped her interest in the power of images.

Taught by Sarah Clunis, Director of Academic Partnerships and Curator of African Collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University