International Pre-Columbian Art Seminar at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) is accepting applications to participate in the International Pre-Columbian Art Seminar scheduled for March 24 of this year. The free event will include the participation of conservators and archeologists who will discuss the central aspects of the pieces from the Pre-Columbian art collection belonging to the Colección MASP Landmann. The seminar will approach themes such as the presence of those pieces in the Central Andean archeological cultures, in Marajoara art and iconography, as well as in Amazonian archeological collections. The event will include the participation of: Colin McEwan (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC); Cristiana Barreto (Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém); Denise Schaan (Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém); Eduardo va Neves (Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo); George Lau (University of East Anglia, Norwich), and Marcos Martinón-Torres (University College London, London). The Colección MASP Landmann is composed of approximately 900 Pre-Columbian works of art. It is one of the only collections of its kind present in a museum in Brazil. Vast and diverse, the collection has pieces made with ceramic, weaving and metal, created by the several indigenous cultures that inhabited part of the territory known today as South America—including Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. The works cover a period of time that expands almost 2,500 years, from 1000 B.C. to the European invasion during the 16th century. Some of the main cultures include: Chavín, Chimú, Huari, Mochica, Nazca, Paracas, Recuay, Tiahuanaco, Vicus, Viru, Chancay, Inca, Quimbaya, Tairona, Muisca, Sinú, Calima, and Marajó. More information is available at: www.masp.art.br