This semester, students in the course African Americans and Art have been captivated by the silhouette artist Moses Williams (1777-c. 1825), a Black man enslaved by one of the foremost painters of the ...

This year's second prize winner is the play Silhouettes by Africa Ukoh, about a Nigerian actor with ambitions of making it big in Hollywood. ... African Performance 2011: Silhouettes by Africa Ukoh.