Amy SchwartzottDr. Amy Schwartzott is Associate Professor of Art History at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University where she is Curator of University Galleries. Her research interests include African art (contemporary and historical); artists who tilize recycled materials (African and global expressions); and art as a tool for peace and post-conflict resolution. Recent research includes more diverse inquiry into both visual and performative cultures of contemporary Mozambican arts.Her recent publications include Unraveling and Welding Together: War's Transformative Influence on Contemporary Mozambican Art, in The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises (Oxford University Press, 2020); Recycling Discarded Histories to Chronicle Identities: Making Art from Waste in Mozambique, in Waste: Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion (¬¬¬¬Open Library of Humanities Journal, UK, 2019); Healing the Pain of War through Art - Mozambique's Grassroots Approach to Post-Conflict Resolution: Transfomação de Armas em Enxadas/Transforming Weapons into Plowshares, in Dialogues with Mozambique: Interdisciplinary Reflections, Readings and Approaches on Mozambican Studies (Brill, 2018). Read More Read Less