EDUCATION:
| 1973. |
Ph.D., Columbia University, N.Y. |
| 1969. |
Certificate of African Studies (M.A.), Institute of African Studies, Columbia University |
| 1968. |
M.A., Columbia University |
| 1964. |
B.A., Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (TEACHING):
| 1990-present. |
Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, joint appointment with the Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| 1982-1990. |
Professor, Art Department, Cleveland State University. |
| 1988 (Jan.-June). |
Visiting Professor, Art History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| 1986 (Jan.-June). |
Visiting Professor, Art History, SUNY at Purchase, New York. |
| 1982-1985. |
Professor and Chairperson, Art Department, Cleveland State University. |
| 1977-82. |
Associate Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University. |
| 1973-77. |
Assistant Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University. |
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, CATALOGS, EDITED VOLUMES):
| In Press. |
Editor, Sacred Waters: The Many Faces of Mami Wata and other Water Spirits in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 705 pp. [46 contributors, plus DVD] |
| 2008. |
Mami Wata: Water Spirit Arts in Africa and the Afro-Atlantic World. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of UCLA and University of Washington Press, 227 pp. |
| 2004. |
Co-editor, “African Art at the Elvehjem,” Bulletin/Biennial Report 2001-3 - Elvehjem Museum of Art. Madison : UW-Madison, pp.16-36. |
| 2002. |
Editor, Gallery Guide for Revealing Forms: African Art From The Elvehjem Collection, Elvehjem Museum of Art , UW-Madison. 16pp. |
| 1998. |
Beads, Body, And Soul: Art And Light In The Yoruba Universe (with John Mason). Los Angeles : Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 288 pp. (Finalist, Herskovits Award of ASA, 1999 and ACASA Arnold Rubin Award, 2001) |
| 1996. |
Editor with introduction, "Reflecting on African Reflections ," Elvehjem Museum Of Art Bulletin, 1993-5, pp.5-79. |
| 1994. |
Editor with essay (with Rowland Abiodun and John Pemberton III) entitled The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives On African Arts . Smithsonian Institution Press with the support of the Societé Suisse d'Études Africaines and the Rietberg Museum, Switzerland. 275 pp. |
| 1991. |
Yoruba Art And Aesthetics (with Rowland Abiodun and John Pemberton III). Zurich : Rietberg Museum . 103 pp. |
| 1989. |
Yoruba: Nine Centuries Of African Art And Thought (with John Pemberton III and Rowland Abiodun). New York : Alfred Knopf and The Center for African Art. 256 pp. |
| 1989. |
Introspectives: Contemporary Art By Americans And Brazilians Of African Descent (with David Driskell). Los Angeles : The California Afro-American Museum . 104 pp. |
| 1989. |
African Art: A Brief Guide To The Collection. Cleveland : The Cleveland Museum of Art. 25 pp. |
| 1988. |
Guest Editor with Essay. Object And Intellect: Interpretations Of Meaning In African Art. Special issue of Art Journal, 47, 2, Summer. 85 pp. |
| 1988. |
Shapes Of The Mind: African Art From Long Island Collections. Hempstead , New York : Hofstra University . 31 pp. |
| 1984. |
Editor with Introduction. Dimensions In Black Art--Addendum. Cleveland : Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University . 12 pp. |
| 1983. |
Gelede: Art And Female Power Among The Yoruba (with Margaret Thompson Drewal). Bloomington : Indiana University Press. 352 pp. [2nd Edition, 1990.] |
| 1980. |
African Artistry: Technique And Aesthetics In Yoruba Sculpture. Atlanta : The High Museum of Art. 100 pp. |
| 1978. |
Guest Editor with Introduction. African Arts, Special Issue entitled "The Arts of Egungun among Yoruba Peoples," XI, 3, April. |
| 1977. |
Traditional Art Of The Nigerian Peoples: The Ratner Collection. Washington , D.C. : Museum of African Art. 58 pp. |
| 1976. |
Editor with Introduction. African Fabrics. Cleveland : Cleveland State University . 15 pp. with a slide set, notes, and bibliography. |
| 1975. |
Editor with Introduction. Dimensions In Black Art: African, Afro-Brazilian And Afro-American Art At CSU. Cleveland : Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University . Catalog which accompanies permanent collection. 56 pp. |
| 1975. |
Editor with Introduction. Visions Of Africa : An Exhibition Of Prints And Textiles By Nigerian Artists. Cleveland : Cleveland State University . 15 pp. |
PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES):
| In Press. |
“Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Egungun Masquerades among the Yoruba,” in Mana: The Power of Things, Roger Manley, ed. Paris : Canal +. |
| In Press. |
“Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Egungun Masquerades among the Yoruba,” in Homegoings, Regennia Williams, ed. NJ: Africa World Press. |
| In Press. |
“Thomas Moulero: Ketu Historian of Gelede,” in Exu: Global Arts Journal. |
| In Press. |
“Arts and Agency: Patchwork Quilts and Quilting Cooperative of Siddis from Northern Karnataka-India,” TADIA Conference Papers. Paris: UNESCO. |
| In Press. |
"Mami Wata Worship in Africa ," Encyclopedia of African Religion . |
| 2008. |
“Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas: Exhibition Preview,” African Arts, 4, 2, Summer 2008, pp.60-83. |
| 2006. |
“Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata/mami watas and other Water Spirits in Africa ,” (with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk) in Austern, L. P. and Naroditskaya, I., (eds.), Music of the sirens. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. |
| 2005. |
“Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India ,” brochure accompanying exhibition in the Design Gallery, UW-Madison, August 26-September 25, 2pp. |
| 2005. |
“Senses in Understandings of Art,” First Word, African Arts , 38, 2, Summer, pp.1, 4, 6, 88, 96. |
| 2005. |
“Signs of Time, Shapes of Thought: The Contributions of Art History and Visual Culture to Historical Methods in Africa ,” in Writing African History: Methods and Sources , John E. Phillips, ed. Rochester : University of Rochester Press , pp.329-347. |
| 2004. |
“A Spectacle of Miracles: The Yoruba Forest Spirit Mask (Aroni),” and “A Chorus of Visual Praise Offerings: A Yoruba Staff (ose Shango),” catalogue entries for See the Music, Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum, Fred Lamp, ed. Baltimore and Munich: The Baltimore Museum of Art and Prestel Verlag, pp 144-5, 154-55. |
| 2004. |
"Aliens and Homelands: Identity, Agency, and the Arts among the Siddis of Uttara Kannada," in Sidis And Scholars: Essays On African Indians, eds. Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Edward Alpers, pp.140-158. |
| 2003. |
"Coiffures chez Les Yoruba/Yoruba Hairstyles and Headdresses," in Parures De Tete/Hairstyles And Headdresses. Ed. Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau. ( Paris : Editions Dapper), pp. 171-203, 356-7. |
| 2002. |
"Mami Wata and Santa Marta : Imag[in]ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas ," in Images And Empires: Visuality In Colonial And Postcolonial Africa, eds. P. Landau and D. Kaspin. Berkeley : University of California Press , pp.193-211. |
| 2002. |
"Celebrating Water Spirits: Influence, Confluence, and Difference in Ijebu-Yoruba and Delta Masquerades," in Ways Of The River: Arts And Environment Of The Niger Delta( Los Angeles : Fowler Museum of Cultural History), pp. 193-215, 353. |
| 2001. |
Common Ties: Dots, Dashes, Beads, Beauty ( Madison : Wisconsin Union Gallery). 10 pp. |
| 2001. |
"Crowning Glories: Hair, Head, Style, and Substance in Yoruba Culture," in TENDERHEADED: A Comb-Bending Collection Of Hair Stories, eds. Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson. New York : Simon and Schuster, pp. 227-36. |
| 2000. |
"Terre et Tonnerre: L'Art Yoruba destine aux Ancestres et aux Dieux," ["Of Earth, Ancestors, and Gods: Yoruba Art for Osugbo and Sango"] in Arts D'afrique( Paris : Dapper Museum and Gallimard), pp. 49-65, 324-5. |
| 2000. |
"Beads: Body and Soul," MUSE, October, pp. 10-17. |
| 1999. |
"Art History, Agency & Identity: Yoruba Transcultural Currents in the Making of Black Brazil ," in Black Brazil: Culture, Identity, And Social Mobilization, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, pp. 143-174. |
| 1999. |
"Memory and Agency: Bantu and Yoruba Arts in Brazilian Culture," in Diaspora And Visual Culture, ed. N. Mirzoeff ( London : Routledge), pp. 241-253. |
| 1999. |
"Cultura Visual-Conceitos," Cultural Visual( EBA-Federal University of Bahia , Brazil ), 1, 1, pp. 19-20. |
| 1998. |
"Costume in African Traditions," International Encyclopedia Of Dance. Vol 2. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, pp. 209-213.
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| 1998. |
"Gelede: Masking for Our Mothers among Yoruba-Speaking Peoples," Art And Life In Africa -- CD-ROM Project, Christopher D. Roy, ed. ( Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa ).
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| 1997. |
"Ogun and Mind/Body Potentiality: Yoruba Scarification and Painting Traditions in Africa and the Americas ," (with John Mason) in S. Barnes, ed. Africa 'S Ogun(2nd rev. ed.), pp. 332-352. |
| 1997. |
Essay and catalog entries for Arts Du Nigeria. Paris : Reunion des Musées Nationaux, pp.75-84, 258-270. |
| 1996. |
"Aesthetic Evaluations (African)," and "Yoruba," The Dictionary Of Art. London : Macmillan, Vol. 1, pp. 235-40, Vol. 33, pp. 553-60. ["Yoruba," in Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary Of Art - Sample Articles, pp. 95-102.] |
| 1996. |
"Pasts as Prologues: Empowering African Cultural Institutions," in P. Schmidt and R. McIntosh, eds. Plundering Africa 'S Past. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, pp. 110-124. |
| 1996. |
"Signifyin' Saints: Sign, Substance & Subversion in Afro-Brazilian Art," in A. Lindsay, ed. Santeria Aesthetics In Contemporary Latin American Art. Washington , D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 263-289. |
| 1996. |
"Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self," in M. J. Arnoldi, C. M. Geary, and K. Hardin, eds. African Material Culture. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, pp. 308-333. |
| 1995. |
"Transformation through Cloth: An Egungun Costume of the Yoruba," (with Mary Ann Fitzgerald and Moyo Okediji) African Arts, 28, 2, Spring, pp. 54-57. |
| 1995. |
"Yoruba Beadwork: Beauty and Brightness," Faces, September, pp.31-37. |
| 1995. |
Catalogue entries of Yoruba objects in Africa : Art Of A Continent. London : Royal Academy of Art, pp. 414, 416-417. |
| 1994. |
"Form-words in Understandings of Art," in Visions Of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art at UCLA. Los Angeles : Fowler Museum of Cultural History, pp. 64-79. |
| 1993. |
"L'Art d'Ile-Ife: Sources et Significations du Realisme," Arts D' Afrique Noire, (Paris), Automne, pp. 41-51. |
| 1993. |
"Image and Indeterminacy: The Significances of Elephants and Ivory among the Yoruba,": in D. Ross, ed. Elephant: The Animal And Its Ivory In African Culture. Los Angeles : Fowler Museum of Cultural History, pp. 186-207. |
| 1992. |
"Contested Realities: Inventions of Art and Authenticity" African Arts, 25, 4, pp. 24-28. |
| 1991. |
"Head of a King," and "Mother and Child," in M. Gibbons and J.Zuppan, eds. Interpretations. Cleveland : The Cleveland Museum of Art, pp. 41-42. |
| 1991. |
"Headdress of a Maiden," and "Female Mask," The Bulletin Of The Cleveland Museum Of Art, 78, 3, June, pp. 113-114. |
| 1991. |
"September Artwork of the Month" [4 African objects], Artscene, vol. 7, no. 4, September/October, 1p. |
| 1990. |
"Women in Yoruba Art," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday, October 28, 1990 , pp. lC-4C. |
| 1990. |
"African Art Studies Today," in E. Lifschitz, ed. African Art Studies: The State Of The Discipline. Washington , D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 29-62. |
| 1990. |
"Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self," (Abstract) in Material Culture In Africa, proceedings of the International Conference held at Bellagio, Italy, May 19-23, 1988, pp. 69-71. |
| 1989. |
"Gelede mask of a Shango Devotee," catalog entry for an exhibition at the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt am Main , Germany , June 1989. |
| 1989. |
"The Meaning of Oshugbo Art: A Reappraisal," in B. Engelbrecht and B. Gardi, eds. Man Does Not Go Naked: Textilien Und Handwerk Aus Afrikanishen Und Anderen Landern, pp. 151-174. Volume 29, Basler Beitrage zur Ethnologie. (Invited contribution to a work honoring Renee Boser-Sarivaxiavanis) |
| 1989. |
"Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (Exhibition Preview)," (with John Pemberton and Rowland Abiodun), African Arts, 23, 1, pp. 68-77, 104. |
| 1989. |
"Art or Accident: Yoruba Body Artists and Their Deity Ogun," in S. Barnes, ed. Africa 'S Ogun: Old World And New. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, pp. 235-260. |
| 1988. |
"Interpretation, Invention, and Re-presentation in the Worship of Mami Wata," Journal Of Folklore Research, 25, nos. 1/2, pp. 101-139. (Reprinted in R. Stone, ed. Performance In Contemporary African Arts. Bloomington : African Studies Program, Indiana University , 1988, pp. 101-139.) |
| 1988. |
"Western Ijo Janus Sculpture," catalog entry for an exhibition in Geneva , Switzerland , June 1988. |
| 1988. |
"Beauty and Being: Aesthetics and Ontology in Yoruba Body Art," in A. Rubin, ed. Marks Of Civilization. Los Angeles : Museum of Cultural History, pp. 83-96. |
| 1988. |
"Performing the Other: Mami Wata Worship in West Africa ," in The Drama Review, T118, pp. 160-185. |
| 1988. |
"Ijebu Yoruba water spirit headdress called igodo ," in W. Schmalenbach, ed. Afrikanische Kunstaus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller. Munich : Prestel-Verlag p. 151. |
| 1988. |
"Mermaids, Mirrors, and Snake Charmers: Igbo Mami Wata Shrines," African Arts, 21, 2, pp. 38-45, 96. |
| 1987. |
"Art and Divination among the Yoruba: Design and Myth," Africana Journal, XIV, 2/3, pp. 139-156. |
| 1987. |
"Composing Time and Space in Yoruba Art" (with Margaret Thompson Drewal), Word And Image, III, 3, pp. 225-251. |
| 1987. |
"Mami Wata," in M. Eliade, ed. The Encyclopedia Of Religion, Volume 9. New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, pp. 147-148. |
| 1986. |
"Flaming Crowns, Cooling Waters: Masquerades of the Ijebu Yoruba," African Arts, XX, 1, pp. 32-41, 99-100. (Invited contribution to a memorial issue for Robert Plant Armstrong) |
| 1986. |
"African Art at Cleveland State University ," African Arts, XIX, 2, Winter, pp. 56-63, 91. |
| 1984. |
"Art, History, and the Individual: A New Perspective for the Study of African Visual Traditions," in C. Roy, ed. Iowa Studies In African Art. Vol. 1. Iowa City : School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa , pp. 87-114. |
| 1983. |
"An Ifa Diviner's Shrine in Ijebuland" (with Margaret Thompson Drewal), African Arts, XVI, 2, pp. 60-67, 99-100. (Invited contribution to a memorial issue for William Bascom) |
| 1981. |
"Staff (Edan Oshugbo)" and "Mask (Gelede)" in S. Vogel, ed. For Spirits And Kings: African Art From The Tishman Collection. N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 90-91, 114-116. |
| 1979. |
"Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming," in J. M. Cordwell and R. A. Schwartz, eds. The Fabrics Of Culture: The Anthropology Of Clothing And Adornment. The Hague : Mouton Publishers, pp. 189-230. |
| 1978. |
"More Powerful than Each Other: An Egbado Classification of Egungun" (with Margaret Thompson Drewal), African Arts, XI, 3, April, pp. 28-39, 98-99. |
| 1977. |
"Art and the Perception of Women in Yoruba Culture," Cahiers D'etudes Africaines, 68, XVII, 4, pp. 545-567. |
| 1975. |
"Gelede Dance of the Western Yoruba" (with Margaret Thompson Drewal), African Arts, VIII, 2, Winter, pp. 36-45, 78-79. |
| 1975. |
"Masked Theatre in Africa ," MIME JOURNAL, II, pp. 36-53. (Translated by E. Krasinska and reprinted as "Afrykanski Teatr Masek," Dialog: Meisiecznik Poswiecony Dramaturgi Wspolczesnej, XXI, 12, 1976, pp. 109-119.) |
| 1974. |
"Gelede Masquerade: Image and Motif," African Arts, VII, 4, Summer, pp. 8-19, 62-63, 95-96. |
| 1974. |
"Gelede Imagery" in D. Fraser, ed. African Art As Philosophy. N.Y.: Interbook, pp. 99-107. |
| 1974. |
"Efe: Voiced Power and Pageantry," AFRICAN ARTS, VII, 2, Winter, pp. 26-29, 58-66, 82-83. (Adapted by Roberta Ann Dunbar as "African Arts in Festival: The Efe/Gelede of the Western Yoruba" in The Humanities: Cultural Roots And Continuities I. Lexington , Mass. D. C. Heath & Co., 1980, pp. 397-404.) [now in 3rd edition] |
PUBLICATIONS (REVIEWS):
| In preparation. |
Murphy, J. and M. Sanford, eds. Osun Across The Waters. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001. Being reviewed for Current Anthropology. |
| 1997. |
Vlach, J.M. Back Of The Big House, 1993. Reviewed for African American Review , 31, 2, pp. 303-306. |
| 1987. |
Cole, H. M. MBARI: Art And Life Among The Owerri Igbo. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1982. Reviewed for Africana Journal, XIV, 2/3, pp. 259-260. |
| 1987. |
African Masterpieces From The Staatisches Museum Fur Volkerkunde, MUNICH . Exhibition reviewed for African Arts, XXI, 1, pp. 70-71. |
| 1977. |
Errington, F. K. Karavar: Masks And Power In A Melanesian Ritual. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1974. Reviewed for International Journal Of Comparative Sociology, XVIII, 3-4, pp. 304-305. |
| 1977. |
Walker, R. African Women/African Art. N.Y.: African-American Institute, 1976. Reviewed for African Arts, X, 2, Winter, pp. 81-82. |
| 1974. |
Gleason, J. A Recitation Of Ifa, Oracle Of The Yoruba. N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, 1973. Reviewed for African Arts, VII, 3, Spring, pp. 85-86. |
FILMS/VIDEOS:
| In progress. |
Omolekan: Master Weaver Of The Ohori Yoruba. Benin (R.P.B.), 16mm, 10 min., color. |
| In progress. |
Ondo: Spiritual Communication and Possession in West Africa. Benin (R.P.B.), 16mm, 25 min., color, sound, commentary. |
| 2008. |
Flaming Crowns, Cooling Waters: Water Spirit Masquerades among the Ijebu-Yoruba. A 21-minute video with narration. |
| 2006. |
Six research film excerpts incorporated in the permanent exhibition of African art at Musee du Quai Branly, Paris. |
| 2000. |
Producer/Director of 16 2-hour television programs of Beads, Body, And Soul exhibition for public access station WYOU, Madison , WI , February-June. |
| 1996. |
Ancient West African Empires. (Consultant/Commentator) A 30-minute video produced by Knowledge Unlimited, Madison , WI . |
| 1994. |
African Artistry: Technique And Aesthetics Of The Yoruba Master Sculptor Ebo Segbe. A 13-minute video with narration and accompanying notes. |
| 1992. |
Efe/Gelede Ceremonies Among The Western Yoruba. Benin (R.P.B.) and Nigeria , VHS Video, 29 min., color, sound, written commentary. |
| 1990. |
African Masking. A 25-minute video of masking performances among several African peoples to accompany new permanent collection installation, The Cleveland Museum of Art. |
| 1990. |
Yoruba Performance. A 25-minute video with narration to accompany the travelling exhibition Yoruba: Nine Centuries Of African Art And Thought. |
| 1990. |
The World Began At Ile-Ife. An 18-minute video with narration to accompany the exhibition Yoruba: Nine Centuries Of African Art &Amp; Thought. Art Institute of Chicago . [Assisted production] |
| 1980. |
John Eboh: Portrait Of A Traditional Yoruba Carver. Benin (R.P.B.), 16mm, 10 min., color (produced for African Artistryexhibition). |
| 1970. |
Living Space: A Study Of An Artist's Family Living In A Loft. New York , Super 8, 25 min., color, sound, written commentary. |
| 1969. |
Mardi Gras. New Orleans , Super 8, 16 min., color, sound. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CURATORIAL):
| In Preparation. |
Quilts of the Africans (Siddis) of India (a traveling exhibition). |
| In Preparation. |
Joyful Blues: Yoruba Indigo Dyed Textile Arts (Adire) (a traveling exhibition) |
| 2008. |
Curator, Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and and Its Diasporas. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. |
| 2006. |
Curator, Photographic exhibit of African (Siddi) Quilters of Northern Karantaka, India , TADIA Conference on the African Diaspora in Asia, International Centre-Goa, India, January 9-14. |
| 2005. |
Curator, Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India , Design Gallery, SOHE, UW-Madison, August-September. |
| 2005. |
Curator, Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans in India , Saint Mary's Hall, San Antonio , Texas , February. |
| 2003-4. |
Curatorial Advisor, "African Art: Selections from the Bareiss Family Collection," Elvehjem Museum of Art. |
| 2001-2. |
Curatorial instructor, 2-semester museum studies seminar leading to the exhibition Revealing Forms: African Art From The Elvehjem Collection, UW-Madison, April 19-June 19. |
| 2000. |
Curatorial Consultant, "Joyful Blues: A Celebration of West African Art and Culture," Design Gallery, UW-Madison, Spring. |
| 1998. |
Co-Curator (with John Mason), Beads, Body And Soul: Art And Light In The Yoruba Universe. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. |
| 1993. |
Local curator, African Reflections: Art From Northeastern Zaire(originated by the American Museum of Natural History , NY .) |
| 1991-Present. |
Adjunct Curator for African Art, Elvehjem Museum of Art , University of Wisconsin-Madison . |
| 1990. |
Curator, New installation of permanent African art collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art. |
| 1989. |
Guest curator, new installation of permanent African art collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
| 1988-1990. |
Consultant for African Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art (all curatorial responsibilities). |
| 1988-1989. |
Co-Curator (with John Pemberton), Yoruba: Nine Centuries Of African Art And Thought. A major travelling exhibition of 110 Yoruba masterworks shown in seven cities in America and Zurich , Switzerland . |
| 1988-1989. |
Co-curator (with David Driskell), Introspectives: Contemporary Art By Americans And Brazilians Of African Descent. A show of 100 works opened at The California Afro-American Museum and traveled to New York . |
| 1988. |
Guest Curator, Shapes Of The Mind: African Art From Long Island Collections. Hofstra University , New York . |
| 1986. |
Guest Curator, Object And Intellect: African Art From The Collection. Neuberger Museum , SUNY at Purchase, June-September. |
| 1985. |
Organizer (with guest curator John Moore), New Color Abstraction. A show of 20 works by Sam Gilliam, William T. Williams, and Al Loving. Art Gallery, Cleveland State University . |
| 1984. |
Installation of new acquisitions and donations to the CSU Collection of African, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-American Art. |
| 1982. |
Cataloger, Nigerian Images: The Collection Of Arthur Mbanefo, Lagos , Nigeria . |
| 1980. |
Guest Curator, African Artistry: Technique And Aesthetics In Yoruba Sculpture. Atlanta : The High Museum of Art , April-June. |
| 1977. |
Curator, Traditional Art Of The Nigerian Peoples: The Ratner Collection. Washington , D.C. : Museum of African Art. |
| 1976. |
Curator, African Fabrics: Tradition And Change. Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University . |
| 1975. |
Curator, Visions Of Africa : An Exhibition Of Prints And Textiles By Nigerian Artists. Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University , Spring. |
| 1975. |
Curator, Dimensions In Black Art: African, Afro-Brazilian And Afro-American Art At CSU. Afro-American Cultural Center, CSU, Winter. |
| 1973. |
Curator, New Images From Africa : The Ori Olokun Artists, University Of Ife. Afro-American Cultural Center, CSU, October. |
| 1972. |
Curator, Contemporary Art Of The Ori Olokun Workshop, Ife , Nigeria. Columbia University , N.Y. |
PAPERS/PANELS:
| 2008. |
"Lienzos Rotatorios, Brisa de Bendiciones: Mascaras Ancestrales de los Yoruba," Festival Internacionale de Tradiciones Afroamericanas, Maracay, Venezuela, June 19-23. |
| 2008. |
Opening remarks for exhibition - "Me Ves como eres, te veo como soy," Congreso Internacional - Diaspora, Nacion y Diferencia, Vercruz, Mexico, June 10-13. |
| 2008. |
“Mami Wata: Traveling Images and Ideas in Africa and the African Atlantic,” Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Lecture on Modern Art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, April 28. |
| 2008. |
“Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Confluence and Transformation of Images and Ideas in the African Atlantic,” Atlantic Worlds: Art and Globalization from Columbus to NAFTA Conference, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, April 24-25. |
| 2008. |
“Mermaids, Snake Charmers, Sirens and Saints: The Many Faces of Mami Wata,” opening lecture for Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas, Fowler Museum at UCLA, April 5. |
| 2008. |
“Ifa: Visual and Sensorial Aspects,” Sacred Knowledge, Sacred Power and Performance: Ifa Divination in West Africa and the African Diaspora Conference, Harvard University, March 14-16. |
| 2007. |
“Africans (Siddis) of India: Histories, Cultures, Arts,” Islam: Religion and Visual Culture Conference, UW-Madison, November 9. |
| 2007. |
Discussant, two panels on “The (Im)possibilities of Representing Cultural Production in Africa,” at the 50th Annual African Studies Association Conference, New York, October 19. |
| 2007. |
“Dreamscapes: Sacred Spaces in Africa and the African Atlantic,” at the “Taking the Road Less Traveled” International Conference, J. M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Sept 28. |
| 2007. |
“Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Confluence and Transformation in African Atlantic Religious Images and Ideas,” International Symposium on Afro-Caribbean Religions and Cultures, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 11-14. |
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Co-Chair, roundtable on “Beyond The Visual: Social Justice Pedagogies,” 14th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Arts, University of Florida-Gainesville, March 28-April 1. |
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“Dimensions in Black Art: Exhibiting Past and Present, Here and There,” 14th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Arts, University of Florida-Gainesville, March 28-April 1. |
| 2006 |
“Theorizing Performance among Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of West Africa : Ancestral Egungun Masquerades,” ,” International Seminar on Performances and Cults: Ontology, Translation, and Exchange, Centre for European Studies, Jadavpur University , Kolkata , India , January 27 . |
| 2006 |
“Global Images in the Worship of Mami Wata in Africa: The Case of Hindu Chromolithographs,” International Seminar on Performances and Cults: Ontology, Translation, and Exchange, Centre for European Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, January 25 . |
| 2006 |
“Arts and Agency: The Siddi Women's Quilting Cooperative of Karnataka,” TADIA Conference on the African Diaspora in Asia , International Centre-Goa , India , January 13. |
| 2005 |
“Making Sense of African Art,” Symposium on Senses and Sentiments of Dress, University of Minnesota , MN , September 16. |
| 2004 |
Chair, panel on "Visual/Verbal Crossroads in African Arts," 30th Annual African Literature Association Conference, Madison, April 17. |
| 2004 |
Co-Chair, panel on "Africa and the Indian Ocean World: Arts and Identities," and presenter "African Indian Performance Arts in Karnataka," 13th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 1. |
| 2004 |
Discussant, two panels on "Mami Watas: The Roots and Routes of African Water Spirit Arts, Beliefs, and Practices," 13th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 3. |
| 2004 |
"Teaching about African Cultures through the Arts," Teachers Workshop on Museum Outreach Education, 13th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 3. |
| 2003 |
Discussant, panel on "Representations of Motherhood in African Art," African Studies Association Conference, Boston, November 1. |
| 2003 |
"Art Works! The Power and Presence of Yoruba Images," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, October 19. |
| 2003 |
"Dreamshapes: Sacred Earthen Sculptures by the Mami Wata Priestess Walas," M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, November 6. |
| 2003 |
"Destinies and Designs: The Art and Ideas of Four Afro-Atlantic Artists," keynote address at the symposium for the exhibition "Destinies: Four African Diaspora Artists," University of Denver, April 3. |
| 2003 |
"Arts of the African Diaspora in India," Panel on African Diaspora Arts for the Film Festival "The African Effect," The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, March 20-23. |
| 2003 |
"Oju Inu or Insights from Conversations with Babalawo Kolawole Oshitola," at Oju Aye/Face Value: A Symposium on Yoruba Cultures in Transition, University of South Florida, January 31-February 1. |
| 2002 |
"Traveling Images and Ideas: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata and other Afro-Atlantic Spirits," paper presented at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, October 14. |
| 2002 |
"Oil, Activism, and the Arts: Yoruba and Mami Wata Examples" presented at a Fowler Museum of Cultural History - UCLA symposium, November 1. |
| 2002 |
"Alien Homeland: The Arts and Agency of African Descendants in India," paper presented at the Indian Ocean World International Conference, UCLA, April 5. |
| 2002 |
"African Art Studies: The State of the Field and My Research," Columbia University, Februrary 25. |
| 2001 |
"African Americas - Religion: The Visual Culture and History of Mami Wata," presented at the International UNESCO/Palmares Foundation Conference on African American Religions and Cultural Diversity, Rio, Brazil, December 18-21. |
| 2001 |
"Africans/Siddis in India: An Historical Overview" and "Siddis in the 21st Century: Dreams, Aspirations, and Actions," presented at the Kala and Sanskriti Workshop for Siddi Youth, Mundgod, Karanataka, India. |
| 2000 |
"Yoruba: Les Dieux et les Arts Sacres," inaugural lecture, Musee Dapper, Paris, December 1. |
| 2000 |
"Mermaids, Snake Charmers, Saints: The Arts and Worship of Mami Wata," Mermaids, Hip-Hop, Tattoo: Dynamics of Popular Culture Seminar, Maastricht Summer University, Amsterdam, August 30-Sept. 2. |
| 2000 |
"Seeing/Believing: Mami Wata Icons in Africa and the Americas," International Congress on the History of Religion, Durban, South Africa, August 10. |
| 1999 |
"Arts, Agency, and Resistance: Afro-Brazilian Religious Communities in Contemporary Brazil," for the International Conference on From Local to Global: Rethinking Yoruba Religious Traditions for the New Millennium, Florida International University, Miami, Dec. 9-12, 1999. |
| 1999 |
"Memory, Agency, and the Arts: The African Diaspora in Brazil," Global Diasporas: Communities of Exile and Migration Conference, UW-Madison, October 29. |
| 1999 |
"Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Ancestral Masquerade Performances among the Yoruba," Dress as Transformation: Creating Experience in Theatre and Masquerade Symposium, LACMA, Los Angeles, April 18. |
| 1998 |
"A Noite de Beleza Negra: Selecting the Carnival Queen for Bloco Afro Ile Aiye," Afro-Brazilian and Amerindian Performance Conference, New York University, November 13-14. |
| 1998 |
Discussant, panel on "The Visibility of African Art," 11th Triennial Symposium on African Art, New Orleans, April 9. |
| 1998 |
Discussant, panel on ?The Mande Diaspora in the Americas,? African Studies Association Conference, Chicago, October 29. |
| 1998 |
"Cultura Visual: Art for Life and Critical Thought" Inaugural Lecture delivered at the School of Fine Arts-Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, March 23. |
| 1998 |
"A Luta Continua: Arts and Agency in the 1997 'Celebracão da Heranca Africana'" at the Rethinking the African Diaspora Conference at Emory University, April 18. |
| 1997 |
"Memory, Agency and Modernity: African Artistic Assertions in Brazil," Recovering Benin Conference, Wellesley College, April 12. |
| 1997 |
"Snake Charmer, Mami Wata, Santa Marta: Imag[in]ing Selves and Others in Europe, Africa, and the Americas," Images and Empires Conference, Yale University, February 16. |
| 1996 |
African Discourse in Brazilian Visual Culture, The American Society for Ethnohistory, Conference, Portland, November 7-9. |
| 1996 |
Signifyin' Saints: Africanizing Elements in Sacred Art and Architecture of Bahia, Brazil, The African Impact in the Material Culture of the Americas, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 1. |
| 1996 |
Memory and Agency: Bantu and Yoruba Arts in Brazilian Culture, CAA Conference, Boston, February 22. |
| 1995 |
Discussant, panel on "Mami Wata: New Perspectives and Peregrinations," at the African Studies Association Meeting, Orlando, Nov. 5. |
| 1995 |
Chair, panel on "Art, History, Hegemony: Afro-Brazil," 10th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Art, April 20, New York University. |
| 1994 |
Ijebu-Yoruba and Edo Artistic Interactions, paper presented at the African Studies Association Meeting, Toronto, Nov. 2. |
| 1993 |
Archaeology and Museums WAMP Conference on West African Museums, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, May 24-28, 1993. |
| 1993 |
Pasts as Prologues: Empowering African Cultural Institutions, Conference on Africa's Disappearing Past: The Erasure of Cultural Patrimony, University of Florida-Gainesville, April 15-17. |
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| 1993 |
Compelling Constructs: Transcultural Identities in Afro-Brazilian Arts History, Conference on Black Brazil: Culture, Identity, Social Mobilization, University of Florida-Gainesville, March 3l-April 3. |
| 1993 |
Imag(in)ing Eshu-Elegba and Ifa: Yoruba Art, Life, and Thought, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. Feb. 28. |
| 1992 |
Ijebu Art and Transculturalism in Southern Nigeria, 1700-1900, African Studies Association Meeting, Seattle, Nov. 22. |
| 1992 |
Co-Chair (with Freida High-Tesfagiorgis), panel on "Black Passages: Arts of the African Diaspora," Ninth Triennial Symposium on African Art, University of Iowa, April 22-25. |
| 1992 |
Chair, panel on "The 'New' World? Art, History, and Hegemony in the Americas," CAA Conference, Chicago, Il., February 13. |
| 1992 |
Symposium Organizer and Chair, panel on "Art and Performance," International Symposium on Yoruba Art, Artists, and Aesthetics, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, January 16-19. |
| 1991 |
Discussant, panel on "Agency in African Art and Culture," African Studies Association, St. Louis, Nov. 24. |
| 1991 |
Keynote speaker for Workshop on Yoruba art and culture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, March 23. |
| 1991 |
Contested Realities: African Inventions of Art, Symposium on "Deceptive Realities: Quality and Authenticity in African Art," University of California, Santa Barbara, February 10. |
| 1990 |
Chair, panel on "Archeology, Art, and the Art Market," Society for Africanist Archeology Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 24. |
| 1989 |
Dress and Discourse: The Garments of Yoruba Osugbo Elders, African Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 4, 1989. |
| 1989 |
Snake Charmer, Water Spirit, and Saint: The History of an Image of the Exotic on Three Continents, College Art Association Meeting, San Francisco, Feb. 17. |
| 1988 |
The History of Afro-Brazilian Art, The Friends of Ethnic Art, Santa Barbara, California, June 16. |
| 1988 |
Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self, International Conference on African Material Culture, Bellagio, Italy, May 20, 1988. |
| 1988 |
Mami Wata: Icons and Ritual Actions, The Art Institute of Chicago, April 28. |
| 1988 |
Aspects of Yoruba Aesthetics, presented at the African Studies Lecture Series, Northwestern University, Evanston, April 25. |
| 1988 |
The Crossroads of Life: Ifa Divination Trays, presented at the Third Annual Southern California Colloquium on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Native Americas, California State University, Long Beach, April 23. |
| 1988 |
Objects, Artists, and Owners: An Interdisciplinary, Biographical Approach to African Art History, presented at the 3rd International Seminar on "Ere Ibeji: Twin Memorial Figures of the Yoruba," University of Maryland, College Park, April 9, 1988. |
| 1987 |
African Art Studies Today, presented at the State of the Discipline Symposium marking the opening of the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D. C., September 16. |
| 1986 |
Art History in the Niger Delta, presented at the First Annual Fellows Symposium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 1986 |
The Influence of Ijo Ekine Masquerades in Ijebu Yoruba Agbo: The Transcultural Interpretation of Imagery, presented at the Seventh Triennial Symposium on African Art, UCLA, April 5. |
| 1986 |
Mami Wata: African Representations of the Other in Art and Action, presented at the Columbia University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, March 20. |
| 1985 |
Reflecting the Other: Mirrors and Mami Wata Performance in West Africa, presented at the Spring Seminar on the Humanities in Africa, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 17, 1985. |
| 1985 |
Creators and Creations of Culture: Using Art History and Anthropology in the Study of African Art, presented at the College Art Association National Meeting, Los Angeles, February 14-16. (Symposium sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Trust) |
| 1984 |
Form and Meaning in Osugbo Art among Ijebu Yoruba, presented at the 27th African Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, October. |
| 1983 |
Composition, Myth, and Motif in Ifa Divination Art, presented at the 26th African Studies Association Conference, Boston, December 9. |
| 1983 |
Beauty and Being: Aesthetics and Ontology in Yoruba Body Art, presented at the Symposium on Art of the Body, U.C.L.A., January 28-29. |
| 1980 |
Composing Time and Space in Yoruba Art, presented at the Social Science Research Council Conference on the Relations between the Verbal and Visual Arts in Africa, Philadelphia, October 11. |
| 1980 |
The Art and Ritual of Mami Wata in West Africa, presented at the XIVth International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Winnipeg, Canada, August. |
| 1980 |
Art and Syncretism in West Africa: The Mami Wata Phenomenon, presented at the Ohio Academy of Religion, Otterbein College, April 26. |
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| 1979 |
The Impact of Printed Media on Mami Wata Art and Ritual, presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, November 2-4. |
| 1979 |
Art, History, and the Individual: A New Perspective for the Study of African Visual Traditions, presented at the University of Iowa Symposium on African Art, April 27-28. |
| 1977 |
The New Faces of African Art: European, Indian, and African Imagery in the Art of Mammy Wata, presented at the 4th Triennial Symposium on Traditional African Art, Washington, D. C., April 16. |
| 1977 |
Intracultural Variation and the Dynamics of Change in African Art, presented at the University Seminar on Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art, Columbia University, February 11. |
| 1976 |
Film and the Study of the Arts: Yoruba Sculpture and Dance, presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Boston, November 6. |
| 1976 |
Process, Purpose, and Aesthetics in Yoruba Body Arts, presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Boston, November 4. |
| 1975 |
Towards a History of Efe/Gelede: Origins, Development, Diffusion, presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, March 9. |
| 1974 |
Yoruba Artistic Retentions in Brazil: The Case of Shango, presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Chicago, November 1. |
| 1974 |
Iyanla: Mask for the Mothers of Western Yorubaland, presented at the 3rd Triennial Symposium on African Art, Columbia University, April 22. |
| 1973 |
Style Determination in Gelede Masks," presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Syracuse, November 1. |
| 1972 |
Advantages and Disadvantages of Super 8 Film in Research: A Case Study in the Analyses of an African Dance Masquerade, presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, November 8. |
HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS:
| 2008 |
Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – Porgramming for Mami Wata exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art, Fall. |
| 2007 |
Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Art History Lecturer, UIUC-Champaign-Urbana. |
| 2007 |
Nave Committee Award -- Afro-Cuba at the Crossroads: Arts, Culture, History Project – Fall. |
| 2007 |
Millard Meiss Grant, CAA-publication support for Sacred Waters edited volume. |
| 2007 |
LACIS-UW-Madison - Tinker Visiting Professor nominee awarded grant for Fall 2007. |
| 2007 |
Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – Afro-Cuba at the Crossroads: Arts, Culture, History Project – Fall. |
| 2006 |
Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center |
| 2005 |
The Graduate School , UW-Madison -- Faculty Travel Grant to the TADIA Conference on the African Diaspora in Asia , International Centre-Goa , India , January 9-14, 2006 . |
| 2004 |
J. Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. |
| 2004 |
American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship, Part 3. |
| 2003 |
Teaching and Technology Grant, LSS-UW-Madison. |
| 2003 |
Nave Fund, UW-Madison, Sin Fronteras; Bridges to the Caribbean Project grant. |
| 2003 |
Wisconsin Humanities Council, Sin Fronteras; Bridges to the Caribbean Project grant. |
| 2003 |
Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison, Sin Fronteras; Bridges to the Caribbean Project grant. |
| 2003 |
Morgridge Center, UW-Madison, service-learning course grant. |
| 2003 |
Center for South Asian Studies, UW-Madison, Faculty Research Grant. |
| 2003 |
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Republic of Benin. |
| 2002 |
The Graduate School, UW-Madison, Faculty Research Grant |
| 2002 |
American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship, Part 2. |
| 2002 |
Elected Board Member, Wisconsin Humanities Council. |
| 2002 |
Resident Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, Fall 2002. |
| 2001 |
The Graduate School, UW-Madison, Collaborative Faculty Research Grant (with Sonya Clark). |
| 2001 |
American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship on the arts, culture and history of Africans in India. |
| 2001 |
Brittingham Award to bring distinguished museum director, Doran H. Ross. |
| 2000 |
Caribbean Resource Center Fellowship, University of Puerto Rico African Diaspora archival and field research (July). |
| 2000 |
Ford Foundation-Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison - Beaded Prayers Community Project (with Prof. Sonya Clark). |
| 2000 |
Hilldale Faculty/Student Research Grant on ?Afro-Bolivians: History, Arts and Identity.? (Megan Scanlon) |
| 2000 |
Governor's Humanities Awards, Wisconsin Humanities Council, for excellence in Humanities programming ( Beads, Body And Soulexhibition). |
| 2000 |
The Graduate School, UW-Madison, Faculty Research and Travel Grants (2). |
| 1999 |
InTime Faculty Grant (Technology in Teaching), UW-Madison. |
| 1999 |
WebCT Faculty Grant (Website Development), UW-Madison. |
| 1999 |
American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship, 6-months research on African Diaspora in South Asia. |
| 1999 |
Luther S. and Dorothy C. Cressman Professor in the Humanities Lectures, University of Oregon, Eugene. |
| 1999 |
Brittingham Award to bring distinguished lecturer (with Prof. Sonya Clark). |
| 1999 |
Arts Institute, UW-Madison for bead artist residencies (with Prof. Sonya Clark). |
| 1999 |
K. Knapp Bequest grant for performances related to Beads, Body, And Soulexhibition. |
| 1999 |
Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching, UW-Madison. |
| 1998 |
Invited to be A.W. Mellon Visiting Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans for Spring 1999 [declined] |
| 1997 |
South African Social Research Council, three-week sponsored lecture tour to universities in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg, and Durban, South Africa, March 10-30, 1997. |
| 1997 |
NEA grant to support publication of the all-color book/catalog Beads, Body, And Soul: Art And Light In The Yoruba Universe(Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History). |
| 1997 |
Steenbock Summer Grant for graduate student advising, UW-Madison. |
| 1997 |
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, for teaching/research in Brazil. |
| 1997 |
Fulbright Research/Teaching Award, Brazil. |
| 1997 |
UW-Madison Faculty Research Grant, Brazil. |
| 1997 |
Nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Professorship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
| 1996 |
Fulbright Grant, The American Republics Research Program -- Brazil. [awarded but funding eliminated] |
| 1995 |
Anonymous Fund, UW-M, grant for "Building Beautiful Bridges between Brazil and Wisconsin: Arts Festival." |
| 1994 |
Hilldale Faculty/Student Research Grant on "Defining the Corpus of Nok Sculpture." (Lori Dumm) |
| 1994 |
The Graduate School, UW-M, Faculty Research Grant, Spring and Summer 1995. |
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| 1994 |
J. Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Brown University. |
| 1994 |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship. |
| 1993 |
Academic Specialist Grant, USIA (Museum development in Côte d' Ivoire). |
| 1992-93. |
NEH Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago. |
| 1992 |
University of Wisconsin-System. Faculty Development Grant to develop curriculum on the Arts of the African Diaspora. |
| 1992 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Graduate School Faculty Research Grant for completion of Research Tape Transcripts and writing of book chapter. |
| 1991 |
Appointed to the Editorial Board of ART BULLETIN for 3 year term. |
| 1991 |
Invited participant, Rockefeller Foundation Conference on Museums in Africa, New York, April 3. |
| 1991 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Faculty Research Grant for preparation of book manuscript. |
| 1990 |
Discussant, Scholarly Roundtable on the Africa Project, Field Museum of National History, Chicago, June 28. |
| 1990 |
Invited presenter, Conference on Yoruba Art - ONA, Fine Arts Department, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. |
| 1990 |
Faculty Commencement Speaker, College of Arts and Sciences, Cleveland State University. |
| 1990 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend to write chapters of THE CHAMELEON'S CLOTHES: ART, HISTORY, AND ETHOS AMONG THE IJEBU YORUBA. |
| 1989 |
Invited presenter, 1st European Colloquium on the Arts of Black Africa, Paris, Musee National des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, March 10-11, 1990. |
| 1989 |
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities. |
| 1989 |
Distinguished Scholar Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Cleveland State University. |
| 1988 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, a major grant to implement the travelling exhibition Yoruba: Nine Centuries Of African Art And Thought. |
| 1988 |
The Rockefeller Foundation, a major grant supporting the exhibition " Introspectives: Contemporary Art By Americans And Brazilians Of African Descent," The California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles. |
| 1988 |
Cleveland State University, Senior Faculty Research Expense Grant (Proposal Title: "Selection of Objects for the exhibition Yoruba: Nine Centuries Of African Art And Thought"). |
| 1987 |
New York State Council on the Arts grant for the planning of the travelling exhibition Yoruba: Nine Centuries Of African Art And Thought. |
| 1987 |
Invited to be Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter and Spring Quarters 1988. |
| 1987 |
Invited participant at the 3rd International Seminar on "Ere Ibeji: Twin Memorial Figures of the Yoruba," University of Maryland, College Park, April 9. |
| 1987 |
Invited participant, International Conference on African Material Culture, Bellagio, Italy, May 19-23, 1988. |
| 1987 |
Invited speaker, Symposium on the State of the Discipline as part of the opening activities for the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D. C., September 16. |
| 1986 |
Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 1986 |
Invited speaker, the First Annual Thomas Munro Memorial Lecture, The Cleveland Museum of Art. |
| 1985 |
Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 1984 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Basic Research Grant (with Margaret Thompson Drewal and John Pemberton (III). (Proposal Title: "Human Creativity and Cultural Dynamics in an African Society: Art and Religion of the Yoruba, Part II") |
| 1984 |
Appointed Regional Editor, Journal Of Cultures And Ideas(University of Ife, Nigeria). |
| 1984 |
Finalist for the 1983 M. J. Herskovits Award for Gelede: Art And Female Power Among The Yoruba. |
| 1984 |
Invited participant, College Art Association planning session for Symposium on "Art History and Anthropology," J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles. |
| 1984 |
Invited participant, J. Paul Getty Trust Art and Architecture Thesaurus Project, Bennington, Vermont. |
| 1983 |
Cleveland State University, Research Expense Grant (Proposal Title: "Mami Wata: Art and Belief in West Africa") |
| 1982 |
Invited participant at the 2nd International Seminar on "Ere Ibeji: Twin Memorial Figures of the Yoruba," Nigerian National Museum, Lagos, March 10-14. |
| 1981 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Basic Research Grant (with Margaret Thompson Drewal and John Pemberton III). (Proposal Title: "Human Creativity and Cultural Dynamics in an African Society: Art and Religion of the Yoruba") |
| 1981 |
Cleveland State University, Research Expense Grant (Class II). (Proposal Title: "Yoruba Art, Artists, and Patrons") |
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| 1981 |
Cleveland State University, Faculty Publications Support Grant for "Funds for the production of B&W prints for forthcoming book GELEDE: A STUDY OF ART AND FEMALE POWER AMONG THE YORUBA." |
| 1981 |
Invited participant at the International Seminar on "Ere Ibeji: Twin Memorial Figures among the Yoruba," Nigerian National Museum Lagos, April 13-18. |
| 1981 |
Alternate, Senior Fulbright Award for Research in Africa. |
| 1980 |
Cleveland State University, Senior Faculty Research Grant (Class I). (Proposal Title: "The Documentation of Yoruba Art in Major European Museums") |
| 1980 |
Cleveland State University, Faculty Publication Support Grant for "Research film to accompany exhibition at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta." |
| 1979 |
Georgia Council on the Arts & Humanities Grant in support of the exhibition and catalogue for AFRICAN ARTISTRY: TECHNIQUE AND AESTHETICS IN YORUBA SCULPTURE, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta. |
| 1979 |
Cleveland State University, Development Foundation. (Proposal Title: "Additional Acquisitions for the CSU Collection of African, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-American Art") |
| 1977 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research. (Proposal Title: "Social Realities Affecting Art in Yoruba Culture") |
| 1976 |
Cleveland State University, University Budget Committee Grant of supplementary funds for publication of CSU permanent collection catalog. |
| 1975 |
Cleveland State University, Center for Effective Learning Grant to support publication of catalog for CSU permanent collection of African, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-American Art. |
| 1975 |
The Institute for Intercultural Studies, Inc., N. Y., to continue iconographic study of the arts of the Ohori Yoruba, Fall. |
| 1975 |
Cleveland State University, Faculty Research Initiation Grant. (Proposal Title: "The Origins of Afro-Brazilian Art" carried out in Benin (R.P.B.), Nigeria, and Togo, Summer) |
| 1974 |
Cleveland State University, grant for the purchase of African art for permanent University collection (written with Dillard Poole, Director, Afro-American Cultural Center, CSU). |
| 1974 |
Cleveland State University, Center for Effective Learning Grant for survey and production of slides for courses in African, Oceanic, and American Indian art. |
| 1974 |
Cleveland State University, Faculty Research Initiation Grant. (Proposal Title: "Yoruba Artistic Retentions in the New World") |
| 1973 |
The Institute for Intercultural Studies, Inc., N.Y., for ethnographic film project among the Ohori Yoruba. |
| 1970 |
Columbia University Institute of African Studies, dissertation research grant. |
| 1970 |
The Institute for Intercultural Studies, Inc., N. Y., dissertation research grant. |
| 1968 |
Columbia University, NDFL Foreign Language Fellowship. |
| 1966 |
International House - NYC, Residence Fellowship. |
PUBLIC LECTURES:
| 2008 |
Newark Museum, New Jersey |
| 2007 |
Edgewood College, Madison |
| 2007 |
California College of the Arts, San Francisco |
| 2007 |
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco |
| 2005 |
Health Sciences Learning Center , UW-Madison |
| 2005 |
South African National Museum , Cape Town , South Africa |
| 2005 |
Haffenreffer Museum , Brown University |
| 2005 |
Phoebe Hearst Museum , UC-Berkeley |
| 2005 |
School of Creative Media - City University of Hong Kong , China |
| 2005 |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Mellon Humanities Summer Institute |
| 2005 |
Museum of Fine Art, Boston |
| 2005 |
University of New England, ME |
| 2005 |
St. Mary's Hall, San Antonio, TX |
| 2005 |
University of Florida-Gainesville |
| 2004 |
National University of Benin , Abomey-Calavi |
| 2003 |
River Arts Center, Sauk Prairie, WI. |
| 2003 |
African and African Diaspora Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2002 |
Loyola University, Chicago |
| 2002 |
John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University |
| 2002 |
Textile Study Society, New York |
| 2001 |
Valmir Capoeira School, Salvador, Brazil |
| 2001 |
Transylvania University, Lexington, KY (3-lecture series) |
| 2001 |
Siddi Arts Workshop, Mundgod, India |
| 2000 |
Musee Dapper, Paris |
| 2000 |
Museum of American Folk Art, New York |
| 2000 |
St. Thomas University, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
| 2000 |
Lehman College-CU, NY |
| 2000 |
BOSE, Making Connections Program, NY |
| 2000 |
Studio Museum in Harlem, NY |
| 2000 |
Museum for African Art, NY |
| 2000 |
Art Institute of Chicago. |
| 1999 |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1999 |
University of Oregon, Eugene. |
| 1999 |
Emory University, M.C. Carlos Museum |
| 1998 |
American Museum of Natural History. |
| 1997-8. |
Numerous public lectures on African performance arts in Salvador, Brasilia, and São Luis Maranhão, Brazil. |
| 1997 |
3-week sponsored lecture tour, universities in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg, and Durban, South Africa. |
| 1996 |
Friends of Ethnic Arts, San Francisco |
| 1996 |
Portland State University |
| 1995 |
Summerstage - Africa Fete, NY |
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| 1995 |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY |
| 1995 |
Princeton University |
| 1995 |
Indiana University-Ft. Wayne |
| 1995 |
Louisville Museum of Art, Kentucky |
| 1995 |
Universite de Saint-Louis, Senegal |
| 1995 |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 1994 |
UC-Berkeley Museum of Art |
| 1994 |
National Museum of African Art |
| 1994 |
UCLA - Fowler Museum |
| 1994 |
UC-San Diego |
| 1994 |
Carleton College |
| 1994 |
Ft. Wayne Museum of Art |
| 1994 |
Indiana University - Ft. Wayne |
| 1993 |
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
| 1993 |
Bowers Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California |
| 1993 |
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA |
| 1993 |
Krannert Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (invited) |
| 1993 |
The Newberry Library, Chicago (Colloquia) |
| 1992 |
The Newberry Library, Chicago (Fellows Seminar) |
| 1992 |
Elvehjem Museum of Art |
| 1992 |
National Museum of African Art |
| 1991 |
Harvard University |
| 1991 |
Boston Museum of Fine Arts |
| 1991 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
| 1991 |
University of Iowa |
| 1991 |
The Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1991 |
The New Orleans Museum of Art |
| 1991 |
Craft Alliance, St. Louis |
| 1990 |
The University of Florida, Gainesville |
| 1990 |
Miami University, Coral Gables |
| 1990 |
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (2 lectures) |
| 1990 |
Northwestern University |
| 1990 |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1990 |
The Art Institute of Chicago (series of 5 lectures) |
| 1989 |
University of Michigan |
| 1989 |
The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| 1989 |
Southern University, Baton Rouge |
| 1989 |
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| 1989 |
The California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles |
| 1989 |
Amherst College |
| 1989 |
The Toledo Museum of Art |
| 1988 |
May Weber Museum of Art, Chicago |
| 1988 |
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia |
| 1988 |
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History |
| 1988 |
San Diego Museum of Art |
| 1988 |
Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1988 |
Northwestern University |
| 1988 |
California State University, Long Beach |
| 1988 |
Museum of Cultural History, UCLA |
| 1988 |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1988 |
UCLA seminar on African Art and Social Control |
| 1988 |
Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, NY |
| 1987 |
Artsweek, Connecticut Public Television (Channel 49) |
| 1986 |
USIS, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1986 |
Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY |
| 1986 |
Port Washington Library, NY |
| 1986 |
Columbia University, Associates in Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art |
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| 1986 |
The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| 1986 |
The Birmingham Museum of Art |
| 1985 |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 1985 |
The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, N.Y. |
| 1985 |
Cleveland Museum of Natural History (5-part lecture series) |
| 1985 |
Indianapolis Museum of Art (invited) |
| 1985 |
Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 1985 |
Amherst College |
| 1984 |
National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. |
| 1984 |
Amherst College |
| 1984 |
The Cleveland Institute of Art |
| 1983 |
Seattle Art Museum |
| 1983 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1983 |
Museum of Cultural History, U.C.L.A. |
| 1983 |
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History |
| 1981 |
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
| 1981 |
Amherst College |
| 1980 |
Museum fur Volkerkunde, Leipzig, East Germany |
| 1980 |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 1980 |
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie |
| 1980 |
Ohio Art Education Association Conference, Cleveland |
| 1980 |
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
| 1979 |
The Cleveland Institute of Art |
| 1979 |
Indiana University, Seminar in the African Humanities, Bloomington |
| 1978 |
Amherst College |
| 1978 |
Wayne State University, Detroit |
| 1977 |
Cleveland Museum of Natural History |
| 1977 |
Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing |
| 1975 |
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 1975 |
Indiana University, Seminar in the African Humanities, Bloomington |
| 1974 |
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City |
| 1974 |
Boston University |
| 1974 |
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| 1973 |
Institute of African Studies, Columbia University |
| 1972 |
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey |
| 1972 |
Essex County College, Newark |
| 1972 |
Seton Hall University, New Jersey |
| 1970 |
Harlem-Morningside Lecture Series, N.Y.C. |
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
| West African Research Association |
| American Society for Ethnohistory |
| Society for Africanist Archeology |
| Arts Council of the African Studies Association (founding member, Board of Directors) |
| African Studies Association |
| College Art Association |
| Congress on Research in Dance |
| International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences |
| Midwest Art History Society |
| Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication |
| The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters |
COURSES:
| Graduate Seminar: Practicum in Art History: Bibliography, Historiography, Methods |
| Graduate Seminar: Diaspora Dynamics |
| Graduate Seminar: Arts of Masking in Africa and Diaspora |
| Graduate Seminar: Imaging the West in Africa, Asia, and the Americas |
| Graduate Seminar: Theories & Field Methods |
| Graduate Seminar: African Art--Image and Idea |
| Graduate Seminar: Yoruba Art History and Philosophy |
| Graduate Seminar: African Antiquity |
| Graduate Seminar: Art and Artists in Africa |
| Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: African Masking and the Senses |
| Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Carnival Arts of the African Diaspora - Resistance and Empowerment |
| Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Museum Studies I & II - Exhibiting Africa, Practicing Theory |
| Undergraduate Seminar: Yoruba Beads, Body & Soul |
| Undergraduate Seminar: African Arts of the Yoruba |
| Introduction to African Art and Architecture |
| Art and History in Africa |
| Contemporary Art in Africa |
| Arts of the African Diaspora |
| African Art: Paleolithic to the Rise of West African Empires |
| African Art: The Rise of West African Empires to the Beginning of the Colonial Era |
| Africa: An Introductory Survey through the Arts |
| Afro-American Art History |
| Arts of the Pacific, Native America, and Africa |
| Arts of the South Pacific |
| Oceanic and Native American Art |
| Art History and Appreciation |
| Western Art History: Renaissance to Present |
LANGUAGES:
| French (fluent); |
| Yoruba (good); |
| Portuguese (good); |
| Spanish (good). |
OTHER:
| 2007. |
Organizer, Afro-Cuba at the Crossroads: Arts, Culture, History (series of programs--art exhibition, book exhibition, symposium, films, music and dance performances—Fall). |
| 2003-4. |
Co-Director, Sin Fronteras -- collaborative arts/education project involving UW-M, Madison Metropolitan School District, and the Madison Children's Museum. |
| 1970-present. |
Field Research - Africa/African Diaspora arts - Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d' |
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Ivoire, Senegal, Morocco, South Africa, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama, Brazil, and India |
| 1980-present. |
Publications Referee - University of Chicago Press; Routledge; Prentiss Hall; University of Washington Press; University of Colorado Press; University of North Carolina Press; and Indiana University Press. |
| 2001-2. |
Curatorial instructor for "Revealing Forms: African Art in the Elvehjem Museum Collection." |
| 2000-2002. |
Consultant - Milwaukee Museum of Art. |
| 1997 |
Proposal author and Symposium organizer, 10th Annual African Diaspora Celebration, UW-Madison. |
| 1995 |
Proposal author and Coordinator, Viva Brasil Project -- collaborative arts/education project involving UW-M, Madison Metropolitan School District, and the Madison Children's Museum. |
| 1992 |
Coordinator/author of a major proposal to establish a Fund for African Archaeology (pending). |
| 1992 |
Donated slide collection (10,600) to National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian Institution. |
| 1991-present. |
Adjunct Curator for African Art, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Arrange new acquisitions, coordinate donations of African art to collection (total over 150), design and coordinate, all programming for African Reflections: Art From Northeastern Zaire (1993), And Beads, Body And Soul: Art And Light In The Yoruba Universe (1999-2000). |
| 1985-1993. |
Curator and Consultant on African art for the Cleveland Museum of Art; Neuberger Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art |
| 1991 |
Organizer, Symposium on the Arts in Contemporary Africa, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 3-4. |
| 1974-88. |
Development of a collection of 140 African, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-American art objects at Cleveland State University. |
| 1965, '78 |
Apprenticeships with traditional Yoruba carvers, Abeokuta and Ilaro, Ogun State Nigeria. |
Updated June 2008 |
