TREASURED CIGAR BOX Assemblage Explorations of the African Diaspora at San Francisco Public Library

Exhibition Runs: June 23 - Aug 2, 2012 Location: 3rd Floor (Afro-American Wing) Hours: The show is open during Library hours Mon-Sun

Chartrand's Treasured Cigar Box series invites you into a world of the global slave trade perspectives between Africa, Europe, the Americas, and America (USA). These multidimensional assemblage cigar boxes (15 boxes) incorporate recycled and found objects, keys, money, and hand painted paper.

This series bridges the gap by connecting the major Colonial slave trade shareholders of the New World. Treasured Cigar Box (series) offers knowledge and research into the deeper meaning on how the exploitative, atrocious and brutal servitude, and harvesting of tobacco by circa 12-million African Slaves fueled the beginnings of the modern day corporations.

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