Metroland: Art beat

By: Shawn Stone

MYTHBUSTING Connie Frisbee Houde, the photographer who has done so much to give us a window into life in Afghanistan over the last decade of endless war, now turns her lens on West Africa. Her latest exhibit is Debunking the Myth of Voodoo and Slavery—A Journey in West Africa. Opening today (Thursday, Jan. 24) at Siena College’s Yates Gallery (which is in the Standish Library), these images were captured on Frisbee Houde’s September 2012 journeys in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso. As she writes in the exhibit notes, “we were invited to participate in these magnificent festivals full of joy, laughter, storytelling, singing, drumming, dancing and mystery.”

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