 Global Conversations is an exhibition that takes key objects from our African collection and places them in conversation with several of our other permanent collections. Inasmuch as the Brooklyn Museum aspires to be a encyclopedic museum and also a museum that seeks to represent the diverse world that we have, the African collection is invaluable to telling the story. I got so many emails from teachers and administrators. They have expressed in me the need for many of their students, not only students in the African diaspora, to be able to understand their cultural heritage and see themselves represented in the museum's collection. Something that we've all really found is that there are a lot of misconceptions that really permeate every part of our culture around people's understandings of Africa. So for us, the African Arts Collection is a really important teaching resource to help people understand the diversity of cultures and artistic traditions throughout the African continent. There are a number of works that I'm really excited to teach from and they are absolute masterpieces not only of the collection but really in the field. The Cuba mask with the George Washington portrait is a really iconic one. I'm really interested for some new conversations that I don't think we've had the opportunity to think about and I'm just really excited to be able to center the continent of Africa as a birthing place for so many aspects even of classical European history. This is an opportunity to help people understand what an amazing resource the Brooklyn Museum is and that it's yours, it belongs to you. So come you know and take ownership of this amazing resource by engaging in these conversations with us.