Strategic Interplay: African Art and Imagery in Black and White explores connections between African art and the ancient game of chess. The two fields of strategic endeavor have intertwined, inspired, and influenced each other in ways both overt and indirect for nearly one and half millennia.

Willie Cole's 'To get to the other side' on view in the Toledo Museum's Canaday Gallery as part of 'Strategic Interplay: African Art and Imagery in Black and White.”

Strategic Interplay: African Art and Imagery in Black and White is organized by the Toledo Museum of Art and curated by Lanisa Kitchiner, Ph.D., Senior Manager of Interpretation and Curator of African Art at the Toledo Museum of Art; and Wendy Grossman, Ph.D., an independent art historian and curator.