Flow Museum of Art & Culture

Spent a beautiful morning today with new friends in Stanton, TN.

Kanaga Mask from Mali. Prior collections: Radin, New York; Horseman, St. Louis; Flow Museum, Memphis.

Explore a unique collection of Benjamin L. Hooks vintage press photographs.

Flow Museum of Art & Culture is looking for an experienced, compassionate, creative, and well versed grant writer for our organization’s team.
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Jay Etkin
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Rare Bolivian Retablo, Saint James, at 942 South Cooper space.

Friends,
Please peruse through our Flow Museum of Art & Culture website. Support us, join us on this journey, and reach out at anytime to share ideas and suggestions. All donors become museum members!
Much appreciation,
Jay

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FLoW Museum of Art & Culture in Memphis, Tennessee The mission of the FLoW Museum of Art & Culture is to build a cultural hub that, both within and outside its walls, enriches Memphis and the world through learning, sharing, and celebrating all cultures.

Memphis in May International Festival celebrates Ghana in 2022

Examples from the Hooks Bros. Photographic Archives: these and others exhibiting at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library throughout the month of January, 2022 at Goodwyn Gallery.

Beautiful Gelede Mask from Nigeria. Featured in Ladislas Segy’s Masks of Black Africa, 1976. Prior Collection: G. Mennen Williams, former Governor of Michigan. Current Collection at The Flow Museum, Memphis, TN.

In Honor of Black History Month:

Cultural Research Center within The Flow Museum. Extensive photographic documentation of Collections with digital library available to students, researchers, writers, filmmakers, etc. Shown: Dan Guere Mask from the Ivory Coast.

Yoruba Divination Bowl from Nigeria

Makonde Colonial Figure, wood and pigment, from Tanzania. Note scarification and colonial garb.

Dance Forms:
Flamenco from Spain, Costumed Dancer from Ivory Coast, and Native American Pueblo dancers of Northern New Mexico.
Art & Cultural Expressions

Dan Masks from Liberia; former Nokes Collection.

•Museum Highlight of the Week:
Forest Spirit Mask, Dan People, Ivory Coast; former Nokes Collection. With boldly exaggerated form, a mask that reveals its fierceness and supernatural potency!

Dan Mask, Liberia, former Nokes Collection.

From the former Nokes Collection of African Art, a Celebration Mask, Liberia. Wood, animal fur, metal, and fiber. Permanent Collection of The Flow Museum.

Dan Masks formerly from the Nokes Collection, now permanent collection of The Flow Museum of Art & Culture.

The Flow’s Vision is building compassionate and equitable communities through learning, sharing, and celebrating all cultures.

The African piece featured below is a Baga Nimba shoulder mask from Guinea...a symbol of motherhood!

It’s journey from Guinea, many decades ago, to Liberia, to exhibiting in a few American museums, leads to its permanent home at the Flow Museum of Art & Culture in Memphis, TN; experience this dynamic work of art.

Male Altar Figure, Yoruba, Nigeria, wood and pigment. Former Nokes Collection.

Antique Kanaga Mask from Mali, and several 19th Century Mexican Retablo, oil on tin!

Mende Helmet from Sierra Leone. From the Neil Nokes collection, now in the permanent collection of The Flow Museum of Art & Culture.

Coming soon!! Jay