The Arts Council of the African Studies Association


Newsletter, Volume 72, Spring-Summer 2005


ACASA Board of Directors

Christraud M. Geary, President
Robyn Poynor, Past President
Tavy D. Aherne, Secretary/Treasurer
Rebecca M. Nagy, Newsletter Editor
Kate Ezra
Ikem Okoye
Constantine Petridis
Elisha Renne
Carol Thompson
Norma H.Wolff

All correspondence regarding membership information
and payment of dues should be directed to:

Tavy D. Aherne
ACASA Secretary/Treasurer
2261 Bent Tree Drive
Bloomington, IN 47401

Email: taheme@indiana.edu

Membership information and forms are available at the
end of this Newsletter.

The ACASA Newsletter is published three times a year:
Spring/Summer, Fall, and Winter. The Newsletter seeks
items of interest for publication. You may send news
about job changes, fieldwork, travel, exhibitions, new
publications, etc. The next ACASA Newsletter will be
Fall 2005. Please send news items by September 13 to:

Rebecca M. Nagy
Ham Museum of Art
P.O. Box 112700
Gainesville, FL 32611-2700

Email: rnagy@harn.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-9826
Fax: 352-392-3892

Deadlines for Submission of News Items
for the 2005 Newsletters:

Fall 2005 September 13, 2005
Winter 2006 January 14, 2006
Spring/Summer 2006 May 13, 2006


Acknowledgement: Graphics featured in the headings
of this Newsletter were drawn by Tami Wroath, based
on designs found on artworks in the collection of the
Ham Museum of Art. The graphic of the dancer on the
fundraising form was designed by dele jegede.


Newsletter


@ Presidential Notes

Conferences .... It is one of the pleasures and du-
ties (some would say unavoidable chore) in our
field to attend conferences and as we all have
observed they come in different forms, shapes,
and sizes. Last year's large African Studies Asso-
ciation Conference in New Orleans seemed to suf-
fer a bit from low attendance and there were few
art panels, no doubt the result of conference over-
load, because the Triennial Symposium on African
Art had taken place only half a year earlier. This
year's ASA meeting in Washington, DC, promises
to bring a bumper crop of those interested in the
visual arts to the Nation's capital. After all, Wash-
ington is the home of the Smithsonian Institution,
a big draw for us.

Another major upcoming conference with panels on
African arts, literature, and film has provoked an
enthusiastic response. It is the first ever European
Conference on African Studies organized by Africa-
Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
(AEGIS), which will take place in London at the end
of June. I guess it is superfluous to mention the
exact dates, because one can no longer sign up for
it, anyway. The organizers had to close registration
by mid-May due to intense interest and limited
space. The challenging program, which has a
slightly different, European flavor, and the venue of
the conference may have helped. Who would not
want to go to London, visit the British Museum,
many of the other collections and displays, and
enjoy some of the activities of Africa 05, a yearlong
celebration of African and Diaspora art and culture.

But is bigger better? Perhaps the best proof that
small, short, and focused conferences can have a
major impact was a recent event in New York at-
tended by an amazing number of colleagues from
the entire East Coast. Susan Vogel, now Professor
of African Art and Architecture at Columbia Univer-
sity, called the one-day symposium to check the
pulse of the discipline. Emerging Scholarship in
African Art brought a fine roster of emerging and
"emerged" scholars to the Department of Art His-
tory at Columbia's Schermerhorn Hall. The theme
of the international symposium emphasized the
ongoing changes and paradigm shifts in our field,
which have been particularly pronounced in recent
years, as the study of the "classical arts of Africa"
seems to be receding and scholars increasingly
focus on contemporary and diasporic arts, a


ACASA







development that became most obvious during the
last Triennial Symposium on African Art.

Presentations ranged from Randall Bird's "The
Power of Landscape in 19th-century Highlands
Madagascar," which opened the day with an inno-
vative topic that fifteen years ago would not have
been considered, to Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbe-
chie's passionate "The Historical Life of Objects:
African Art and the Problem of Discursive Obso-
lence," in which he made a plea for the careful po-
sitioning and restudy of work done by earlier gen-
erations of scholars. There were many highlights
in this tightly organized day. In his presentation
"Symptoms and Strangeness in Yoruba Anti-
Aesthetics" David T. Doris impressed the audience
not only with his novel approach, but also with the
power of polished, elegant speech. Polly Rich-
ards, all the way from London, discussed Dogon
masks in a changing world, while Till F6rster from
Basel examined "Intermediality and Changing
Practices of Visual Arts in Northern C6te d'lvoire,"
with a smattering of data from his other research
site in Cameroon. Eli Bentor, Sarah Adams,
Monica Blackmun Visona, and John M. Peffer
closed out the roster. Jonathan Hay of Columbia
University and Enid Schildkrout, the recently ap-
pointed Chief Curator at the Museum for African Art
who has made many important contributions over
the years one need only think of her seminal
catalog African Reflections ably moderated the
sessions. The presentations accomplished exactly
what Susan Vogel had set out to do they brought
into sharp focus the dynamic and changing nature
of our field. One can only hope that the papers will
be published.

In the meantime, an organizing committee and
members of the ACASA board are already busily at
work planning the Fourteenth Triennial Symposium
on African Art, which will take place at the Univer-
sity at Florida in Gainesville in the Spring of 2007.
Victoria Rovine, who recently moved the University
of Florida, has kindly accepted to be the Program
chair. Rebecca Nagy, Robin Poynor, and Susan
Cooksey are on the planning team. Thus, the next
Triennial should be another memorable confer-
ence...



Im Message from the Editor

As always, I am most grateful to Harn Museum of
Art associate curator of African art, Susan Cook-
sey, curatorial secretary Melody Record, and
graphic designer Tami Wroath for their kind assis-
tance in production of this Newsletter and in for-
matting and dissemination of the electronic version
to courtesy members in Africa and the Caribbean.


To assist the editorial team in responding to re-
quests for information about the history of ACASA
and in providing copies of back issues to members,
we are working to assemble a complete run of
ACASA Newsletters, which can be scanned for use
by present and future Newsletter editors. We are
seeking copies of the following Newsletters: 1 50,
54, 55, 56, 58, 61 and 62. If you have copies of
these issues and are willing to lend them to be
scanned by Newsletter editors, please notify Mel-
ody Record by email: mrecord@harn.ufl.edu.


(g ACASA / ASA News


ACASA Triennial News

Mark your calendars!
Dates: March 28 April 1, 2007
Location:University of Florida, Gainesville
Theme: Global Africa
Committee:
* Robin Poynor and Rebecca Nagy- Conference
Co-Chairs
* Vicki Rovine-Panel Chair
* Susan Cooksey and Carol Thompson-Museum
Day Co-Chairs
* Bonnie Bernau and Agnes Leslie-Outreach
Day Co-Chairs

Watch for announcements in future Newsletters
and on H-AfrArts regarding proposals for panels
and papers and other conference information

The ACASA Board has decided to follow ASA's
example in requiring presenters at the Triennial to
be ACASA members. (A limited number of excep-
tions will be granted for colleagues in other fields
who are invited by ACASA members to participate
on their panels.) Be sure to keep your ACASA
membership current in order to receive regular con-
ference updates and to be qualified to submit pro-
posals for panels and papers.


Call for Nominations for Board Members

The ACASA Board Nominating Committee, consist-
ing of Kate Ezra, Norma Wolff and Carol Thomp-
son, is currently working on a list of nominees for
upcoming vacancies on the board. Other nomina-
tions will be accepted as stipulated in ACASA by-
laws:
"Nominations for the Board of Directors by
members-at-large can be made by the sig
natures of ten members in good standing
in support of a candidate, sent to the Presi
dent of ACASA. All nominees must be in
good standing. All candidates for the Board







of Directors will send a letter to the Presi-
dent of ACASA indicating that he or she is
willing to serve. Each will also prepare a
brief statement as to why she or he wished
to serve. This must be submitted in time for
inclusion in the issue of ACASA Newsletter
to appear prior to election."
All nominations should be sent to the President,
Christraud Geary, with candidates' statements by
August 3, 2005. Statements will be published in
the fall issue of the ACASA Newsletter. Elections
will be held at the November 2005 ASA Confer-
ence during the general ACASA meeting. The time
and date of that meeting will also be posted in the
fall Newsletter.



E u Conferences


African Diaspora Conferences

The thirteenth edition of the African Diaspora
Newsletter, edited by Nadine Hunt and Alia PAroo,
featured six conferences and workshops attended
by faculty and graduate students associated with
the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the Afri-
can Diaspora, York University.

Also featured were several new publications, re-
search reports and announcements on the activi-
ties of associates who are conducting research on
the African diaspora.

Forthcoming conferences and workshops for
complete details see: http://www.yorku.ca/nhp

Memory and Methodology: Workshop on the Afri-
can Diaspora
York University, Canada, 3-24 July 2005

Monsoons & Migrations; Unleashing dhow syner-
gies
Zanzibar, Tanzania, 5-7 July 2005

Caribbean Migrations: Negotiating Borders
Ryerson University, Canada, 18-22 July 2005

Research Report:
Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on
the African Diaspora in Brazil and Cuba-Jane
Landers
Featured Paper:
A Stranger at Home: A Ghanaian-Canadian's Ex-
perience- Rachel Asare

Publications & Announcements:
http://www.yorku.ca/nhp


IX INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN
AND AFROAMERICAN CULTURE
Santiago de Cuba April 10th -15th, 2006

The Conference is devoted to Africa and its influ-
ence in the Caribbean.

Presented by The African Culture Center
"Fernando Ortiz", the lecture room of Afro Carib-
bean studies "R6mulo Lachataier."," the Heredia"
Theatre, the UNESCO Chair of Afroiberoamerican
studies of the University of Alcald, the main cultural
authorities in the province, the Applied Linguistic
Center from CITMA, Imgenes" Advertising firm,
and Oriente University.

General topics include: Pre-colonial Africa,
Transculturalism and ReAfricanization, Psychiatry-
Religion-Medicine in the New World, and much
more. The extensive list is on the website.

Workshops:
Color & Form-The Plastic Arts
The Ancestral Rhythm-Dance & Music
Images-Literature, Movies and Video

Submissions of Reports and Summaries of pro-
posed works for the conference will be accepted
until December, 2005

For full conference information:
http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/conferences/santiago/
index. htm#spanish#spanish

For information about the conference application
and deadlines, contact:

Dra. Marta E. Cordi6s Jackson
Director, African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz"
General Conference Coordinator
Ave. Manduley No. 106 esq. A 5ta Reparto Vista
Alegre, Santiago de Cuba, CP: 90400
Telefax: (53-22) 642487 (53-22) 623893 (at night)
E-mail: ccult.f.ortiz@cultstgo.cult.cu
-OR- mcordies@yahoo.com



6Z4 Exhibitions


Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes
Adamu Tesfaw at the UCLA Fowler Museum

This exhibition opened March 6, 2005 to big
crowds at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, including a large contingent of local LA
Ethiopian-Americans. The exhibition explores the
innovative paintings of 72-year-old artist Qes







Adamu Tesfaw, an Ethiopian painter-schooled inr-
the philosophy and aesthetics of a 1500-year-old
tradition associated with the Ethiopian Orthodox
Church. Adamu left the priesthood at the age of 30
to turn to painting full-time, finding the freedom to
venture beyond religious subject matter and to de-
velop a style all his own. The exhibition is organ-
ized by the UCLA Fowler Museum in collaboration
with the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa
University, and is guest curated by Raymond
Silverman, professor of Art History and Afroameri-
can & African Studies at the University of Michigan.

After closing at the UCLA Fowler Museum, the ex-
hibition will travel to the Birmingham Museum of Art
and will be on view from February 5th through April
23, 2006. Additional tour dates in the USA are
available through Fall 2007. The tour will close with
a showing at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Ad-
dis Ababa University. To book the exhibition please
contact:
Karyn Zarubica, Director of Traveling Exhibitions
UCLA Fowler Museum
email: karynz@arts.ucla.edu
or by telephone: (310) 825-6067.


Sense, Style, Presence: African Arts of Personal
Adornment

Ham Museum of Art
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
November 9, 2004 June 2006
Curator: Susan Cooksey

Sense, Style, Presence: African Arts of Personal
Adornment explores a range of African objects and
modes of personal adornment. "Adorn" refers to
what is used for two essential approaches to dress-
ing the body. It includes both extending the dimen-
sions, color and textures of the body through gar-
ments, jewelry, and other accoutrements, and
modifying the shape and texture of the skin and
hair. Objects in the exhibition demonstrate how
extending and modifying the body are construed as
enhancements of individual appearance, and also
convey important information about the wearer.
They also illustrate that the adorned human form,
with all that is attached to it, covers it, or inscribed
on its surface, acquire layers of meaning that tran-
scend the purely visual.

The exhibition addresses the question of what
forces shape the process of adorning the body in
African societies. Objects in the exhibition reveal
that dress styles are affected by various combina-
tions of historical, social, political and personal fac-
tors. Many of the selected objects support political
hierarchies, for example, whereas others reflect
social status and individual aesthetics.


The installation includes objects from west, east,
central and south Africa made with a variety of me-
diums: metalwork, textiles; wood; beadwork; fibers
and modern synthetic materials such as plastics.
Several objects are on loan from the Fowler Mu-
seum of Cultural History, UCLA and the Hood Mu-
seum of Art at Dartmouth College and private U.S.
collections. Six major areas are highlighted in the
exhibition. The wide variety of garments, jewelry
and accoutrements attest to the inventiveness and
technical skill of African artists in enhancing the
human form.

A 32 page color catalogue including essays by Pat
Darish, Robin Poynor, Doran Ross and Victoria
Rovine accompanies the exhibition. For more infor-
mation about the exhibition please contact the Harn
Museum at (352) 392-9826.

This installation was made possible by the Museum
Loan Network-a program funded and initiated by
the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and
the Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by
MIT's Office of the Arts.


Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans
in India

Curated by Henry Drewal, this exhibition of quilts
by African (Siddi) women in India will open at the
Design Gallery, School of Human Ecology, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin-Madison on August 26, 2005 and
be on view until September 25, 2005. The curator
will give a talk at the closing reception on Sunday,
September 25 at 2 pm. The Siddi women of three
villages have formed a Siddi Women's Quilting Co-
operative and are raising funds from the sale of
their quilts.
For those interested in supporting this project, ar-
ranging an exhibition, or purchasing quilts, please
contact Drewal at: hjdrewal@wisc.edu


El Anatsui : GAWU

Ham Museum of Art
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
August 16-October 16, 2005
Organized by Oriel Mostyn Gallery,Wales
Curator: Martin Barlow

"Gawu," as the artist states, is a word combining
allusions to metal and references to a fashioned
cloak. In this exhibition featuring seven of El Ana-
tsui's latest sculptures, the artist has fashioned
both garments and other architectonic forms from
scraps of metal and cloth. Four of the new works
are inspired by West African textile traditions such
as kente and adinkra, and re-present their opu-







lence, histories, and cultural meanings. These
"cloths" made primarily from bottle caps, gin bottle
tops and wire, are both monumental and ephem-
eral. Three other objects in the exhibition, made
from discarded cans, printing plates, and roofing tin
are abstracted constructions, that serve as em-
blems of transformation through elemental natural
forces, and may also be seen as commentary on
contemporary consumer culture. Similar works
have recently toured major European venues, and
are installed in the British Museum. The Ham Mu-
seum will be the only U.S. venue for this exhibition.


Traveling Exhibitions from the Museum for
African Art

The Museum of African Art's new building, de-
signed by Robert A.M. Stern, will soon become a
tangible reality at the corner of Fifth Avenue and
110u Street on New York's legendary Museum
Mile. Twenty-three years after the founding of the
museum, it will move in late 2007 into a permanent
space. The museum looks forward to expanding its
activities, building a collection and serving a wider
audience. In the meanwhile, the museum maintains
an active exhibition schedule and announces the
following traveling exhibitions:

Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary
African Diaspora
Edinburgh Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland,
June 18 September 11, 2005
Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco, California, Spring 2006

Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and
Renewal in Urhobo Art
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
June 23 September 25, 2005

Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in
Contemporary South African Art
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii,
February 24 May 7, 2006

Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from
the New Orleans Museum of Art\
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas,
June 25, 2005 October 2, 2005
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas,
January 20 April 16, 2006
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
May 14 August 13, 2006
The National Museum of African Art, Wash., DC
October 5, 2006 -January 28, 2007

A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
Drew University and Farleigh Dickinson University,
Madison, New Jersey,
September October, 2006


AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1968 2003

This exhibition curated by Professor Judith Bettel-
heim represents the culmination of three years of
work by Bettelheim and a host of students in the
Art Department at San Francisco State University.
Several trips to Cuba were made to research the
production of prints and drawings. An 88 page full
color catalogue contextualizes six groupings of
these works, drawn from both Havana and Santi-
ago de Cuba studios. The catalogue provides the
biographies behind a selection of portraits and new
information about black artist collectives, Cuban
involvement in Angola, the relationship of the art to
religious iconography, and aspects of the explosion
of contemporary art during the 1990s.

The exhibition, which is currently touring and avail-
able, is circulated by Curatorial Assistance. The
catalogue is distributed by the University of Wash-
ington Press.


I l N A Current Publications Et Films


Four New DVDs Available from Chris Roy

Brewing of Millet Beer in Burkina Faso

Roy completed this 1-hour DVD, "Brewing Millet
Beer in Africa," on the brewing of millet beer in
Burkina Faso, based on many decades of re-
search. The site for the millet beer DVD ($25) is
http://www.customflix.com/206776

The Funeral of the Omanhene of Techiman

A video on "The Death of an African King: The
Funeral of the Omanhene of Techiman" was
filmed by Chris Roy and Sarah Adams in Ghana in
February 2004. This video is full of royal arts,
gold sword ornaments, state umbrellas, funeral
cloth, music of horns and drums, dancing, chiefs
and chiefs-of-state. All six days of the funeral are
documented on the DVD Roy and Adams filmed,
edited, and narrated, also $25, at http://
www.customflix.com/206800

Art as a Verb in Africa: The Masks of the Bwa
Village of Boni

The spectacular mask performances of the Bwa
people in the village of Boni, in central Burkina
Faso include great plank masks six feet tall and
two feet wide, as well as masks that represent
hawks, lepers, dwarfs, serpents, and other spiri-
tual beings. The film is full of men and women
who participate enthusiastically in an exciting and
visually stunning celebration of their spirituality.







This DVD shows masks at the annual mask festi-
val in 2005. It was filmed by Abdoulaye Bamogo
and directed by CaroTThompson. Go to http://
www.customflix.com/207205

A Year in the Life of an African Family

The Bamogo family of northern Burkina Faso raise
millet, sorghum and corn on a large farm. This
video follows the family as they harvest their
crops, thresh grain, cook a full meal, brew millet
beer, attend a ceremony of the local chief, grind
millet on a stone grindstone, watch a diviner per-
form wearing a mask, attend a large public festi-
val, and plant the new crop in the spring. There is
a nice African "voice" to this, since it was filmed by
videographer Jacob Bamogo, a member of the
family. Go to http://www.customflix.com/206928

To see a full list of the ten titles Roy offers, go to
http://www.uiowa.edu/l~africart and scroll down to
DVDs on African ArtBooks

Representation of Violence: Art about the
Sierra Leone Civil War.
Edited by Patrick Muana and Chris Corcoran.
Exhibition catalogue and conference proceedings.

The book may be ordered directly from the follow-
ing website: http://www.africanartville.org/
africanartville/index.asp.

The traveling exhibition is currently on show at the
VSA Arts for All Gallery in Atlanta, GA.

The Pride of Ewe Kent.
Ahiagble Bob Dennis.
Published by Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana,
2004
Color Illustrations and Maps, 72 pp.Cloth, $25.95
Now available from Michigan State University
Press.


QUERY: Book Suggestions for H-AfrArt Review

I have half a dozen books currently under review
for H-AfrArts, but I would appreciate suggestions
from list members regarding books they would like
to see reviewed.

Also, if you are involved in the publication of a
catalogue or monograph and would like it re-
viewed, please send a review copy (or suggest to
your publisher that a review copy be sent) to:

Jean Borgatti HAfrArts Review Editor
H-Net, 310 Auditorium Bldg.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
JBorgatti@aol.com


cI : I Fellowships


Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the
Humanities 2006--2007 Topic: TRAVEL

PENN HUMANITIES FORUM
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 15, 2005

Five Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available
for the 2006-2007 academic year from the Penn
Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsyl-
vania for untenured junior scholars who are no
more than eight years out of their doctorate.

The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are
conceived through yearly topics that invite broad
interdisciplinary collaboration. The Forum has set
TRAVEL as the topic for the 2006-2007 academic
year. Research proposals on this topic are invited
from a variety of theoretical perspectives in all ar-
eas of humanistic study except educational curricu-
lum-building and the performing arts.

Fellows teach one freshman seminar each of two
terms. $42,000 stipend, plus health insurance. The
fellowship is open to all scholars, national and in-
ternational, who meet application criteria.
Full guidelines to travel topic description, and appli-
cation online: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu

For more information, email or call:
Jennifer Conway,
Associate Director, Penn Humanities Forum,
humanities@sas.upenn.edu,
215.898.8220


U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards 2006-2007

2006-2007 applications can now be submitted for
U.S. Fulbright scholar awards for faculty and pro-
fessionals. Research awards are available for pro-
jects in all disciplines including HIV/AIDS-related
projects. For information on awards in Sub-
Saharan Africa, contact:

Debra Egan
Assistant Director for Africa/Western Hemisphere
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
(CIES)
degan@cies.iie.org or 202-686-6230

Visit the Web site, www.cies.org to apply and for
further award information. Complete application
materials are due at CIES by August 1, 2005. Note
that U.S. citizenship and a Ph.D. or equivalent de-
gree are required.








Awards


Best of the Web Award

Recognizing achievement in cultural and heritage
Web site design, a committee of museum profes-
sionals selects the Best of the Web each year. This
year's winners were announced in Vancouver on
April 15. For Best Online Exhibition, congratula-
tions to:

Cycles: African Life through Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
http://www.ima-art.org/cycles/

Judges' Comments:
"The design of this online exhibit is a piece of art
itself. Beautiful and fun to explore. A highly visually
appealing and thought provoking site which pro-
vides a rich user experience through interactivity,
text and images. A particular highlight is the
'context' link that a user can click on when viewing
an object. The graphic elements also nicely en-
hance the content and navigational options avail-
able to the user."

See the conference web site at http://
www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/ for full details
about the competition, the judges, and the judging
criteria.


African Studies Association Announces:
Children's Africana Book Award Winners

In April the African Studies Association (ASA) an-
nounced the winners of the 2005 Children's Afri-
cana Book Awards. The ASA annually honors out-
standing authors and illustrators of the best books
about Africa published in the United States for
young children and older readers. The 2005
awards will be presented on November 19, 2005, in
Washington, D.C. at the annual meeting of the Afri-
can Studies Association. See
www.AfricaAccessReview.org for additional infor-
mation.

2005 Best Book for Older Readers Award
Allan Stratton, Chanda's Secrets
Toronto & Buffalo, N.Y.: Annick Press, 2004

2005 Best Book for Young Children
Ifeoma Onyefulu, Here Comes Our Bride!
London, Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2004
Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West

2005 Honor Book for Older Readers
Deborah Ellis, The Heaven Shop


Toronto & Allston, MA: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004
2005 Honor Book for Older Readers
Veronique Tadjo, Talking Drums
New York: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books,
2004

2005 Honor Book for Young Children
Margot Theis Raven & E. B. Lewis (illus.)
Circle Unbroken: the Story of a Basket and its
People
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

The awards committee has asked the publishers to
facilitate the winners' travel to Washington for the
awards ceremony. ACASA members may be espe-
cially interested in the possible participation of
Veronique Tadjo. A native of C6te d'lvoire now liv-
ing in Johannesburg, Ms. Tadjo is an artist as well
as a poet and is honored both an illustrator and
compiler of the of poetry anthology Talking Drums:
A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sa-
hara. ACASA members who wish to arrange any
speaking engagements that might help defray the
costs for Ms. Tadjo's travel should contact:

Harriet McGuire
Media Relations
Children's Africana Book Awards / Africa Access
www.AfricaAccessReview.org
(703) 549-8208
Fax: (208) 474-9893
hmcquire@bigfoot.com



I | ICalls for Papers & Essays


African Crossroads: Artistic Expression in and
across the Sahara

Contributions are invited for an edited volume
which will explore trans-Saharan artistic contacts
from a trans-national and post-area studies per-
spective. Africa has traditionally been viewed
through a bifocal lens, in which the Sahara has
been perceived as an impenetrable barrier, dividing
the continent into northern and sub-Saharan Africa.
Countries in the north continue to be considered
within the domain of Islamic, Middle Eastern, Clas-
sical and Ancient Egyptian studies having little or
no artistic contact with sub-Saharan countries con-
sidered more authentically "African".

Scholars have failed to recognize that communica-
tion, correspondence, trade and travel, in partner-
ship with nomadic movements across the Sahara,
have been going on for several millenia. This inter-
course among traders, scholars, artisans and
nomads set the stage for the emergence of richly







diverse aesthetic expressions both along the web
of routes crossing the Sahara as well as at their
terminii.

Papers should address the methodological, con-
ceptual, stylistic or technical aspects of artistic
creativity and performance, either contemporary or
historic, which reflect aspects of this artistic dis-
course and/or which illustrate how the Sahara was/
is a porous boundary, a bridge rather than a bar-
rier, for the transmission and exchange of arts and
culture.

Final essays, between 6000-8000 words plus illus-
trations, will be due on October 1, 2005.
Email title, an abstract (c. 200 words) and a CV to
either Cynthia Becker or Labelle Prussin by June 1,
2005.

Cynthia Becker
Labelle Prussin



Call for Contributors: The Encyclopedia of Africa
and the Americas

The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas
Publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated
Deadline for receipt of all entries: July 1, 2005
(can be extended)

ABC-Clio, Incorporated seeks contributors for its
latest installment in a series of encyclopedias treat-
ing Africa and the African diaspora. ABC-Clio is a
well-known and authoritative publisher of educa-
tional and reference products that focus on history
and social studies resources for the student,
teacher and librarian in universities and secondary
schools.

Scope:
The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas will
provide information concerning the important his-
torical, political and cultural links between the Afri-
can continent and North America, South America,
and the Caribbean. The Encyclopedia will be an
important resource tool primarily focusing on the
needs of secondary school students. Conse-
quently, contributors should be aware of their target
audience and write their entries accordingly. Over-
all are requestedrelatively short entries of 250-500
words; word count is included in parenthesis follow-
ing the listed entry. Each contributor will receive full
author credit. Graduate students are strongly en-
couraged to contribute.
Entries must include:
Documentation of cited works
List of recommended readings (brief)


Contact information:
Dr. Noelle Morrissette Searcy
noelle.searcy@oberlin.edu


Interrogating The Meanings And Practices of
African Political Thought

York University's African Studies Program and the
Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought
are convening a two day conference on African
Political Thought for October 14th and 15th of
2005.

The purpose of the conference is to foster ex-
changes on the multiple possible meanings of and
relationships between African Political thought and
other, related domains. What are their kinships,
and where do the lines of the distinctiveness of Af-
rican Philosophy begin and the demarcations for
African Political thought end? What is distinctly
African about diasporic or Africana thought?

Conference Themes:
* The Status of African Political Thought and its
Relationship to African Philosophy, Sacred Texts,
and Political Visions
* Literature
* African Social & Political Thought
* Legal Regimes, Gender, History and African
Political Thought

Please send abstracts of papers to:
Centime Zeleke (centime@yorku.ca
) by August 19th.

For more information, please contact:
Program secretary, Roberta Parris
(parris@yorku.ca) 416-736-2100 ext. 20260


AFRICAN ARTISTS IN THE US

I am working on a list of African visual artists (living
or deceased) who have worked or are currently
working in the U.S. Any references (published
sources, e-mail, websites, telephone numbers) will
be appreciated. Please send to me directly at
jegeded@muohio.edu

dele jegede
Professor & Chair
Department of Art
Miami University
Oxford. OH 45056
e-mail: jegeded@muohio.edu








I Obituaries


Emmanuel Arinze

Emmanuel was an immense figure in the museum
world, not only for Nigeria, where his played a tre-
mendous role over the years, but also for the whole
African Continent. From the seventies, Emmanuel
Arinze was on the very forefront of all the major
initiatives aiming at strengthening / promoting the
development of museums and heritage manage-
ment in Africa, for the benefit of the peoples.

He was one of the active founders of the Organiza-
tion for Museums, Monuments and Sites of Africa
(OMMSA), and fought a long time for the survival of
that organization. He was also an energetic and
wise activist in the issues of fighting the illicit export
and traffic of African Cultural Property. During the
eighties and the nineties he was one of the great
promoters of the West African Museums Pro-
gramme (WAMP), where we worked hard with him
and the late Philip Ravenhill to establish as an in-
ternational NGO. He became a founding member
of the independent WAMP in Dakar, and its first
Chairman. He was also a founding member of AF-
RICOM in Lusaka 1999, and was elected AFRI-
COM Chairman in 2003.

Also, Emmanuel was hugely instrumental in the
birth and in the development of the International
Centre for Conservation (ICCROM). He played a
major role in conducting the feasibility study of Pre-
vention in Museums in Africa (PREMA) in 1988,
and later contributed a lot to the programme.

One cannot over emphasize Emmanuel's role in
the development of the Nigerian museums from the
seventies up to the nineties. His professionalism
and authority probably have saved the museum
system in Nigeria from collapsing at that time. The
situation of the NCMM heavily deteriorated when
he was forced to leave in the early nineties.

Arinze was not only a sharp professional, but he
had also a healthy vision, and was able to immedi-
ately identify the positive potentials as well as the
risks in a new development. He believed in the
huge potential of African museums' contribution to
public development in Africa. He was a champion
in the different initiatives to overcome the major
challenges and problems standing for museum de-
velopment in Africa.

Finally, Emmanuel was a wise, open minded and
dedicated leader and professional, a nice and
pleasant colleague. He had an immense authority


among the museum professionals in Africa and
beyond. His death is a huge loss. And I have lost a
great personal friend with whom I shared so much
over the years, and for whom I have the highest
respect.

May he rest in peace!

Claude Ardouin
Curator West Africa
The British Museum



Renbe Boser-Sarivaxevanis

Renee Despina Anastasia Boser-Sarivaxevanis,
born in Athens the 16 November 1921, died in
Basel the 21 April 2005. She had suffered for years
from Alzheimer's Disease.

On Friday, 17 June 2005, Lisa Aronson wrote:

"Let me share my own thoughts and memories
about Renee Boser-Sarivax&vanis, a pioneer spe-
cialist in African textiles.

Renee led a fascinating life. She was born in Ath-
ens, Greece on November, 1921 to a Greek father
and a French mother who descended from a
French family in St. Louis, Senegal, with roots go-
ing back more than two centuries. Renee even had
some African blood herself.

Renee's love for Africa began in her early twenties
when she paid her first visit to her mother's home-
land in Senegal. It was there that she met and later
married Jakob Boser (a Swiss from Basel) with
whom she gave birth to two children, her daughter
Line and her son Aleco.

In the early 50s she and her young family spent
three years in Lagos, Nigeria, during which she met
important Yoruba artists, among them Lamidi
Fakeye. Such contacts inspired her to go to Basel
to study ethnology with Professor Alfred Buhler (a
renowned textile specialist himself). Under him,
she wrote her thesis on West African textiles based
on museum collections, the first ever written on
African textiles, which was defended in 1966, and
in print by 1972 (Les Tissus de I'Afrique Occiden-
tale; MWthode de Classification et Catalogue Rai-
sonn6 des Etoffes Tiss6es de I'Afrique de I'Ouest
Etablis d Partir de Donn6es Techniques et Histori-
ques, Basler Beitrage zur Ethnologie Series, Bale,
Pharos-Verlag H. Schwabe, 1972).
Greatly influenced by Buhler's diffusionist approach
to the study of weaving and dyeing techniques,
Renee embraced the idea that the horizontal
treadle loom came to West Africa from North Africa







by way of the Fulani, with the upright frame loom
(traditionally the women's type) being more indige-
nous to sub-Saharan Africa. To test her hypothe-
sis, she (and her assistant, Bernard Gardi) spent
sixteen months between 1973-75 traveling through
West Africa (Nigeria, Niger, Upper Volta, Ivory
Coast, Mali & Senegal) documenting every textile
tradition they could find. Along the way, they ac-
quired a massive collection of textiles (1400 in all!)
for the Basel Museum of Ethnology (Museum der
Kulturen).

In 1977, Joanne Eicher invited Renee to East
Lansing, and then in 1980 to the University of Min-
nesota in St. Paul to teach a three-month course
on African textiles. In honor of her retirement from
the Basel Museum of Ethnology in 1983, Beate
Engelbrecht and Bernhard Gardi edited a festshrift
volume in her honor in the Basler Beitrage zur Eth-
nologie Series titled Man Does Not Go Naked:
Textilien und Handwerk aus afrikanischen und an-
deren Lindern (1989).

Roy Sieber invited her to the Smithsonian to work
on what would be her last major African textile pro-
ject, a catalog of the newly acquired Lamb collec-
tion of African textiles. Unfortunately, she was un-
able to complete it (Peg Gilfoy ended up writing the
catalog based on choices that Renee had made)
because of what may have been the first signs Alz-
heimer's, a disease that eventually took Renee's
life.

While I often had difficulty accepting Renee's
broad, sweeping theories about textiles (eg., argu-
ing that African loom types have antecedents in
Asia), I forever appreciated her perseverance,
breadth of knowledge, uncanny ability to compre-
hend technique, and unending enthusiasm and
support. Renee will always be remembered for her
warm, nurturing ways, her lively sense of humor
and her infectious spirit."

Lisa Aronson
Associate Professor of Art History
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
laronson@skidmore.edu


Irene Petty

Irene Mae Petty, 80, a home economics teacher
and collector of West African art and textiles, died
of cardiovascular disease May 25 at her home at
Leisure World in Silver Spring.

As the wife of a Foreign Service officer, Mrs. Petty
traveled widely, particularly in Africa. She lived in
several African countries, including Guinea, Sene-
gal, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia.


She also lived in Sweden. During her time in West
Africa, she taught elementary school in Tunisia,
worked for the Peace Corps in Senegal, taught at a
college in Ivory Coast and founded several organi-
zations in support of women. She and her husband
adopted two daughters from Guinea.

Mrs. Petty was born in Elmington, Va., and grew up
in Washington. She graduated from Cardozo Sen-
ior High School in 1942 and received a bachelor's
degree and master's degree in home economics
from Howard University in the late 1940s. From
1950 to 1958, she worked as an administrative as-
sistant with the National Labor Relations Board.
She lived in Africa from 1959 to 1974.

She was an instructor in the School of Human
Ecology at Howard after returning to the United
States in 1974. She often gave lectures and dem-
onstrations on various craft techniques and studied
at the school for a doctorate in sociology. She
wrote about African foods, the role of women in
developing nations and other issues of human
ecology. She retired from teaching in 1978.

Her interest in West African art and textiles led her
to work as a docent at the National Museum of Afri-
can Art and at the Textile Museum.

In 1980, she became the second director of the
National Council of Negro Women's international
division, a post she held for two years. While with
the council, she arranged for a delegation of Afri-
can American women to attend the first United Na-
tions-sponsored all-women's conference, held in
Nairobi in 1985.

She moved to Leisure World in 1995, where she
served as librarian for her church, Leisure World's
Interfaith Chapel, and for the building where she
lived. She had been a member of Peoples Congre-
gational Church United Church of Christ in the Dis-
trict.

She was a volunteer fundraiser for Tostan, a Sene-
galese nonprofit organization that works on behalf
of women in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea.

Over the years, her apartment became something
of a living museum of textiles, books, masks, paint-
ings, jewelry and decorative items from many Afri-
can countries.

Her husband, Will C. Petty, died in 1986.

Survivors include two daughters, Mariama Barry
and Abayatou Barry of Conakry, Guinea; and four
granddaughters.

Washington Post
Tuesday, June 7, 2005; Page B07








GV ) Media & Internet Resources



The Africaserver : Internet Gateway to Africa

The Africaserver website (http://
www.africaserver.nl/front uk.htm) is an ambitious
undertaking to "become a gateway to Africa with
ample attention to the power of culture, for the at-
tractiveness of the continent." The website is look-
ing to depict Africa as different from the stereotypi-
cal image of disaster, war and famine as projected
in Europe (and America). A tour of this internet
portal will take you through quality graphics, inter-
esting themes, and imaginative, diverse artwork
which focuses on the contemporary. Text is pro-
vided both in English and Dutch.

You may check out both the Africa by Country,
which provides a map to click on for links related to
each country, and Africa Thematically which fea-
tures navigation options on the left sidebar with
special sections featured on the right. For the latest
on current events, there are links to newspapers
online from every country in Africa just a click
away.

Below is a description of some of the featured the-
matical Modules from the homepage :

Bongo Toons- cartoons & comics in Tanzania
The virtual exhibition Bongotoons shows
the work of 11 leading Tanzanian
cartoonists: over 200 cartoons in a design
inspired by the popular tabloid press.
Cartoonists have a large influence in
Tanzania with their sharp comments on
politics and society. A special feature in
the website is the gallery of animated
cartoons. The history of cartoons and
comics in Tanzania is explained and
biographies of the cartoonists are
available.
Genocide
The genocide monument from Kofi Setordji
(Ghana, 1957) is presented in a virtual
exhibition at the Virtual Museum of
Contemporary African Art. It includes a
documentation centre with the events in
Rwanda which led to the creation of the
monument. The artwork will be on a
traveling exhibition through Europe starting
in May 2003.
(Currently in Berlin-June 2005)
Virtual Art
Visit the Virtual Museum of Contemporary
African Art. with web-art, an online
magazine, extensive documentation
section and international agenda.


Urban Culture
'Life in urban Africa'. Look and listen to the
socially conscious songs of rappers from
Tanzania, Benin, Ghana, South Africa and
Senegal. Suitable for educational use in
secondary school but also of interest to
everyone who adores modern music, this
website is in Dutch.



AfricanColours Online Resource

AfricanColours, an online resource for contempo-
rary art, has moved its headquarters office to Nai-
robi. AfricanColours hosts artists' portfolios and has
an impressive digital collection of various forms of
visual art.

Contact:
AfricanColours Headquarters
Press Centre, Chester House 1 st Floor
P.O. Box 56814 00200
Nairobi, Kenya
http://kenya.africancolours.net/content/4922


Using Google for African Studies Research:
A Guide To Effective Web Searching

The pilot edition of Using Google for African Stud-
ies Research: A Guide to Effective Web Searching
is now freely accessible at:http://
www.hanszell.co.uk/qooqle.

It is published as an adjunct to the new third edition
of The African Studies Companion: A Guide to In-
formation Sources (online at hqtt://
www.africanstudiescompanion.com although it can
also be used on its own. The guide is designed to
help the user get the most out of Google's Web
searching techniques, and at the same time pro-
vides a critical evaluation of Google's many Web
search features, services, and tools.

The guide is designed to help the user get the most
out of Google's Web searching techniques, and at
the same time provides a critical evaluation of
Google's many Web search features, services, and
tools. The guide is liberally interspersed with exam-
ples of searches, and search strategies, relating to
Africa or African studies topics. Using Google for
African Studies Research is initially released as a
pilot edition, Comments or suggestions are wel-
come, especially from Africana and reference li-
brarians and from African studies scholars.

Contact Hans Zell: hzell@btopenworld.com
(From H-AFResearch)







2005 Membership Directory
North America, Europe and Asia


June 2005 Membership Directory
North America, Europe and Asia

Institutional

Art Institute of Chicago
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
111 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603-6492
USA

The British Museum
Anthropology Library, Centre for Anthrolpology
Great Russel Street
London, WC1B 3DG
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: (0)20-7323-8032
Fax: (0)20-7323-8013
btaplin@british-museum.ac.uk [Ben Taplin]

College Art Association
275 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
USA
Phone: 212-691-1051

James S. Coleman African Studies Ctr
University of California, Los Angeles
African Arts
Box 951310
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310
USA
Phone: 310-825-1310
Fax: 310-206-2250
afriarts@ucla.edu

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert Goldwater Library
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, NY 10028
USA

National Museums Liverpool
Ethnology
William Brown Street
Liverpool, L3 8EN
GREAT BRITAIN

Rutgers University, Douglas Campus
African Studies Association
132 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400
USA
Fax: 732-932-3394


The Arts Council of the African Studies Association


School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Library-Serials
Thornhaugh St, Russell Square
London, WC1H OX G
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: 020-7898-4167
Fax: 020-7898-4159
ms28@soas.ac.uk [Mary Seeley]

Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art Library
Room 2138
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 708
Washington, DC 20013-7012
USA
Phone: 202-357-4600 x286
libmail@sil.si.edu
www.sil.si.edu/Branches/nmafa-hp.htm (home),
www.siris.si.edu (library catalog)

UCLA
UCLA Serials Department
11717 Young Research Library
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

University of East Anglia, Norwich
Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa,
Oceania and the Americas, Sainsbury Center for
the Visual Arts
University of East Anglia
Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ
UK
Phone: 00441603592659
Fax: 00441603259401
p.hewitt@uea.ac.uk
ww.uea.ac.uk/art/sru

University of Kansas
Watson Library -Serials/Subscriptions
1425 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2105
Lawrence, KS 66045
USA

University of Maryland
McKeldin Library-Acquisitions/Serials
College Park, MD 20742-7011
USA
Phone: 301-405-9307
Fax: 301-314-9971
Iw64@umail.umd.edu
www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/


ACASA







Individual

Aguilar, Laurel Birch
St. Salvator's College
University of St. Andrews
18 St. Mary Street
St. Andrews, KY16 8AZ
SCOTLAND
Home: 44-1334-477626
Work: 44-1334-462104
Fax: 44-1334-462030
lbda@st-andrews.ac.uk

Aherne, Tavy D.
Indiana University
2261 Bent Tree Dr.
Bloomington, IN 47401
USA
Home: 812-323-9173
taherne@indiana.edu

Akou, Heather Marie
University of Minnesota
Design, Housing and Apparel
1765 Carroll Avenue, Apt. #29
St. Paul, MN 55104
USA
Home: 612-645-3257
Work: 612-625-5762
Fax: 612-624-2750
hakou@che.umn.edu

Allara, Pamela
Fine Arts
Brandeis University
MS 028
Waltham, MA 02454
USA
Home: 617-730-9447
Work: 781-736-2668
Fax: 781-736-2672
allara@brandeis.edu

Amols, Abigail
Art History
Indiana University
5934 State Hwy 80,
Glimmerblen Winter Cottage
Cooperstown, NY 13326
USA
Home: 607-547-9545
aamols@hotmail.com

Anderson, Martha
Alfred University
64 W. University St.
Alfred, NY 14802 USA
Home: 607-587-9550
Work: 607-871-2468
Fax: 607-871-2490
fanderson@alfred.edu


Arnoldi, Mary Jo
National Museum of Natural History:
Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution
4600 Conn. Ave. NW #220
Washington, DC 20008
USA
Home: 202-244-5386
Work: 202-633-1937
Fax: 202-357-2208
arnoldim@.si.edu

Aronson, Lisa
Department of Art and Art History
Skidmore College
107 Melrose Ave
Albany, NY 12203
USA
Home: 518-458-2491 (\Xi
Work: 518-580-5057
Fax: 518-580-5028
laronson@skidmore.edu

Bacharach, Joan
Museum Management Program, N.P.S.
11900 Coldstream Circle
Potomac, MD 20854
USA
Joan_Bacharach@nps.gov

Beck, Gretchen
Art Department
Concordia University
1530 Concordia West
Irvine, CA 92612-3299
USA
Home: 949-733-3485
Work: 949-854-8002 x1509
Fax: 949-854-6854
gretchen.beck@cui.edu
www.cui.edu

Becker, Cynthia J.
Department of Art History
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Ave., 57P
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
USA
Home: 612-729-4270
Work: 651-962-5572
cjbecker@stthomas.edu

Benons, Jr., Winston A.
1108 Dean Street, #4A
Brooklyn, NY 11216
USA
Home: 917-860-7172
wbenonsjr@yahoo.com







Bentor, Eli
Department of Art
Appalachian-State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
Home: 828-264-6173
Work: 828-262-2579
Fax: 828-262-6756
bentore@appstate.edu

Beresnevicius, Linda
414 North Taylor Avenue, 1-H
Oak Park, IL 60302
USA
Home: 708-848-4948
lkberes@sbcglobal.net

Berns, Maria C.
Fowler Museum
University of California, Los Angeles
Box 951549
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549
USA
Home: 310-314-2175
Work: 310-825-4259
Fax: 310-206-7007
bems@arts.ucla.edu
www.fmch.ucla.edu

Berzock, Kathleen E. Bickford
Department of African & Amerindian Art
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
USA
Home: 847-424-1178
Work: 312-857-7172
Fax: 312-443-0849
kberzock@artic.edu

Bettelheim, Judith
Art Department
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway
San Francisco, CA 94132
USA
Home: 510-653-1769
betheim@sfsu.edu

Binder, Lisa M.
World Art
University of East Anglia
5268 W. 16th St.
Parma, OH 44134
USA
Home: 216-398-3375
lbinder@uea.ac.uk


Binkley, David A.
National Museum of African Art (Chief Curator)
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 708
Washington, DC 20013-7012
USA
Home: 301-718-3629
Work: 202-633-4620
Fax: 202-357-4879
dbinkley@nmafa.si.edu

Blackmun, Barbara W.
Department of Art
San Diego Mesa College (Emeritus)
9850 Ogram Drive
La Mesa, CA 91941
USA
Home: 619-461-5930
Fax: 619-461-1013
bwblackmun@earthlink.net

Bonnell, Letty
Fine Arts
Loyola College in Maryland
2 Lakeside Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
USA
Home: 301-220-1752
Work: 410-617-2170
lbonnell@loyola.edu

Borgatti, Jean M.
Visual and Performing Art
Clark University
295 Maple Ave.
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
USA
Home: 508-793-9695
Work: 508-925-1516
Fax: 508-752-4383
jborgatti@aol.com, jean_m_borgatti@hotmail.com
www.clarku.edu/~jborgatt

Bourgault, Louise M.
Department of CAPS
Northern Michigan University
115 Lakewood Lane
Marquette, MI 49855
USA
Home: 906-249-3436
Work: 906-227-1645
Fax: 906-227-2071
lbourgau@nmu.edu
www.nmu.edu







Brett-Smith, Sarah
Departmentff Art History
Rutgers University
287A Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
USA
Home: 609-921-3463
Work: 732-932-7041
Fax: 609-924-8399 (atten. Stephen Adler)
brettsmi@rci.rutgers.edu

Brown, Bernadette
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
410 Campus Center Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0350
USA
Work: 801-585-7138
Fax: 801-585-5198
bbrown@umfa.utah.edu
www.umfa.utah.edu

Brown, Carrie
71 Retreat House Rd.
Glenmont, New York 12077
USA
Home: 912-604-9084
carriebrown227@yahoo.com
carriebrown.com

Carlson, Amanda
Department of Art History
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
USA
Home: 860-548-1018; 860-946-9340 (cell)
Work: 860-768-4733 (dept. office)
Fax: 860-768-5254
amcarlson@hartford.edu

Ciola, Ann M.
Art History
Binghamton University
261 Ackley Avenue
Johnson City, NY 13790
USA
Home: 607-797-4190
Work: 607-777-2111
Fax: 607-777-4466
bf60007@binghamton.edu


Clarke, Christa J.
Curator of Africa, Americas and the Pacific
The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
USA
Home: 908-301-9333
Work: 973-596-6663
Fax: 973-596-6666
cjclarke@newarkmuseum.org
www.newarkmuseum.org

Cole, Herbert M.
History of Art and Architecture
University California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
USA
Home: 805-682-1809
Work: 805-893-3501
Fax: 805-893 7117
skipcole@humanitas.ucsb.edu

Conner, Michael W.
Krannert Art Museum
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4002 Turnberry Drive
Champaign, IL 61822
USA
Home: 217-352-5641
Work: 217-244-7376
Fax: 217-333-0883
mwconner@uiuc.edu

Coote, Jeremy
Pitt Rivers Museum
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford, Oxon OX1 3PP
UNITED KINGDOM
Home: 44-1865-243426
Work: 44-1865-270930
Fax: 44-1865-270943
jeremy.coote@prm.ox.ac.uk

Cordwell, Justine M.
African Collection
May Weber Foundation
437 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614-3815
USA
Home: 773-528-2128
Work: 773-348-2695

Craig, Michelle
Department of Art History
University of Wisconsin
1344 E. Dayton Street, #3
Madison, WI 53703
USA
Home: 860-377-5057
mh _craig@yahoo.com







D'Azevedo, Warren
1755 Allen Street
Reno, NV 89509
USA
Home: 702-786-5331 e j
Work: 742-784-6704 77 -

Darish, Patricia (//1 I/ -
Independant Scholar
3308 Shepherd St. '-
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
USA
Home: 301-718-3629
pdarish@mindspring.com

de Strycker, Louis
Indepndant
10 avenue Roger Vandendriessche, #4
Brussels, B-1150
BELGIUM
Home: 32-2-762-9965
Work: 32-475-24-2945
destrycker@compuserve.com

DeLancey, Mark D.
School of Art & Art History
James Madison University
MSC 7101
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
USA
Home: 540-434-6821
Work: 540-568-6372
Fax: 540-568-6598
delancmd@jmu.edu
www.geocities.com/markdelancey/Homepage.html

Dewey, William J.
School of Art
University of Tennessee
1233 Harrington Dr.
Knoxville, TN 37922
USA
Home: 865-692-6775
Work: 865-974-0651
Fax: 865-974-3198
wdewey@utk.edu

Drewal, Henry
Dept. of Art History/Afro-American Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elvehjem Museum of Art
800 University Ave.
Madison, Wl 53706
USA
Home: 608-233-2348
Work: 608-263-9362 / 2340
Fax: 608-265-6425
hjdrewal@facstaff.wisc.edu
www.wisc.edu/arth


Ehrlich, Martha J.
Department of Art and Design
S. Illinois University at Edwardsville
338 N. Fillmore Street
Edwardsville, IL 62026-1758
USA
Home: 618-692-6262

Ezra, Kate
Art and Design
Columbia College
5483 S. Hyde Park Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60615
USA
Home: 773-955-0413
Work: 312-344-7749
Fax: 312-344-8009
kate.ezra@att.net

Fagaly, William A.
Francoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art
New Orleans Museum of Art
915 Saint Philip St.
New Orleans, LA 70116-2407
USA
Home: 504-522-9142
Work: 504-483-2630
Fax: 504-484-6662 (o); 504-522-9142 (h)
bfagaly@noma.org

Faletti, Richard J.
Museum for African Art (trustee)
1040 E. Osborn Road, #301
Phoenix, AZ 85014
USA
Home: 602-230-7027
faletti49@msn.com

Farr, D. Francine
Art History Department
Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus
1435 4th Street SW, Apt B 102
Washington, DC 2024
USA
Home: 202-488-7401
Work: 202-466-0520
Fax: 202-466-0583
Francine.Farr@montgomerycollege.edu

Fowler-Paul, Monique
School of Oriental & African Studies
University of London
34 Gramercy Park East #3BR
New York, NY 10003
USA
Home: 212-477-0979
mfowlerpaul@hotmail.com







Frank, Barbara-
Department of Art
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5400
USA
Home: 631-474-2986
Work: 631-632-7264
bfrank@ms.cc.sunysb.edu


Frohne, Andrea E.
Art & Art History
Dickinson College
P.O.Box 780
Vestal, New York 13851
USA
Home: 607-724-3761
Work: 717-245-1714
Fax: 717-245-1937
afrohne@stny.rv.com


Gott, Suzanne
School of Liberal Arts
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64111-1874
USA
Home: 816-523-5680
Work: 816-802-3372
Fax: 816-802-3383
sgott@kc.rr.com


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Galembo, Phyllis
Art Department
University of Albany, SUNY
125 W. 16th Street #140
New York, NY 10011
USA
Home: 212-645-2378
Fax: 212-645-2378
pgalembo@earthlink.net

Geary, Christraud M.
Curator of African and Oceanic Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-5597
USA
Home: 781-488-6033
Work: 617-369-3226
Fax: 617-859-7031
cgeary@mfa.org

Giles, Linda L.
Independent Scholar
612 N. School Street
Normal, IL 61761
USA
Home: 309-452-8821
Work: 309-452-8821
Ilgiles66@hotmail.com

Gittens, Belinda
University of the Virgin Islands
P.O. Box 7412
Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands 00801
USA
Home: 340-779-2170
belindagittens_designs@yahoo.com


Grabski, Joanna
Art Department
Denison University
Cleveland Hall Annex
Granville, OH 43023
USA
Home: 740-507-1706
Work: 740-587-6230
Fax: 740-587-5701
Grabski@denison.edu

Green, Rebecca L.
School of Art
Bowling Green State University
1000 Fine Arts
Bowling Green, OH 43403
USA
Home: 419-353-1068
Work: 419-372-8514
Fax: 419-372-2544
rlgreen@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Hackett, Rosalind I. J.
Dept. of Religious Studies
University of Tennesse
501 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0450
USA
Home: 865-588-1562
Work: 865-974-2466
Fax: 865-974-0965
rhackett@utk.edu
web.utk.edu/~rhackett

Hallen, Barry
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30314-3773
USA
Home: 404-521-2758
Work: 404-215-2607
Fax: 404-521-2942
hallen@morehouse.edu; hallen@fas.harvard.edu







Hanna, Judith Lynne
Department of Dance--
University of Maryland, College Park
8520 Thornden Terrace
Bethesda, MD 20817
USA
Home: 301-365-5683
Work: 301-365-5683
Fax: 301-365-5683
jlhanna@hotmail.com

Hansen, Karen Tranberg
Anthropology
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208-1310
USA
Home: 847-864-6671
Work: 847-491-4826
Fax: 847-467-1778
KTH462@northwestern.edu

Henning, Arthur
Anthropology / Art History Depts.
Northwestern University
2616 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614-1531
USA
Home: 773-608-4904
carryahbout@hotmail.com

Houlberg, Marilyn H.
Art History & Liberal Arts
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60616
USA
Home: 312-666-4420
Work: 312-345-3788

Jackson, Marion (Mame) E.
Department of Art and Art History
Wayne State University
1336 Nicolet Place
Detroit, MI 48207
USA
Home: 313-259-9093
Work: 313-577-2980
Fax: 313-259-9093
mjackson@fulbrightweb.org
www.convida.org

Jenkins, Earnestine
Art-University of Memphis
2044 Kilarney
Memphis, TN 38116
USA
Home: 901-398-4309
Work: 901-678-3450
Fax: 901-678-2735
eljenkns@memphis.edu


Jules-Rosette, Bennetta
Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, 0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
USA
Home: 760-436-1621
Work: 858-822-0265
Fax: 858-534-4753
bjulesro@ucsd.edu

Karg, William
Contemporary African Art Gallery
330 W. 108th St.
New York, NY 10025
USA
Home: 212-749-8848
Work: 212-662-8799
Fax: 212-662-8799
wrkarg@aol.com
contempafricanart.com

Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield
Art History Department
Emory University
Carlos Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
Home: 404-284-4212
Work: 404-727-0808
Fax: 404-727-2358
sidney.kasfir@emory.edu

Kennedy, Carolee G.
1050 N. Stuart St. #229
Arlington, VA 22201
USA
Home: 703-841-5871
Work: 202-435-5612
Fax: 703-841-2187

Kratz, Corinne A.
Center for the Study of Public Scholarship
Emory University
1256 Braircliff, Bldg A, #420N
Atlanta, GA 30306
USA
Work: 404-727-1036
Fax: 404-727-2441
www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CSPS

Kreamer, Christine Mullen
National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 708
Washington, DC 20013-7012
USA
Work: 202-633-4624
Fax: 202-357-4879
kreamerc@nmafa.si.edu







LaDuke, Betty
Southern Oregon University
610 Long Way
Ashland, OR 97520
USA
Home: 541-482-4562
Fax: 541-482-2584
bettyladuke@earthlink.net
www.bettyladuke.com

Levin, Jessica
Department of Art History
University of Chicago
5540 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
Home: 857-928-0479
Work: 773-702-0272
Fax: 773-702-5901
jlevin2@uchicago.edu

Lifschitz, Edward
National Museum of African Art
Education, Research and Interpretation
1337 S. Carolina Ave. SE
Washington, DC 20003
USA
Home: 202-544-0073
Work: 202-633-4634
Fax: 202-357-4879
zyme20003@aol.com

Lloyd, Craig
Art
College of Mt. Saint Joseph
2720 Coy Street
Cincinnati, OH 45219
USA
Home: 513-579-0295
Work: 513-244-4368
craig_lloyd@mail.msj.edu

Loughran, Kristyne S.
Indepaendant Scholar
Lungarno Serristori 9
Florence, 50125
ITALY
Home: 39-055-234-1076
Work: 39-055-234-1076
Fax: 39-055-234-6732
ME3059@mclink.it

Magee, Carol
120 Windsor Place
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
USA
Home: 919-933-8139
cmagee@nc.rr.com


Maitland, Carolyn P.
New York Technical College, CUNY
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Home: 718-548-3783

Martin, Jane J.
Everhart Museum, PA
71 Abington Gardens Drive
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
USA
Home: 570-587-5977
jm71414ab@pix.net

Martin-Oguike, Ngozi Doris
Fine/Applied Arts
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
17 Woodbridge Avenue
Sewaren, New Jersey 07077
USA
Home: 732-634-2397
akwaugo821 @hotmail.com

McAlister, Elizabeth
Department of Religion
Wesleyan University
171 Church St.
Middletown, CT 06459
USA
Work: 860-685-2289
Fax: 860-685-2821
emcalister@wesleyan.edu

McGee, Julie
Department of Art
Bowdoin College
9300 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
USA
Home: 207-725-0680
Work: 207-725-3906
Fax: 207-725-3996
jmcgee@bowdoin.edu

McGuire, Harriet C.
U.S. Department of State (ret.)
3007 Russell Rd
Alexandria, VA 22305-1719
USA
Home: 703-549-8208
Fax: 208-474-9893
hmcguire@bigfoot.com
www.AfricaAccessReview.org







Milbourne, Karen E.
Associate Curator of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
Home: 202-667-2075
Work: 410-396-7056
Fax: 410-396-6562
kmilbourne@artbma.org


Miller, Kim
Departments of Art & Women's Studies
Transylvania University
300 North Broadway
Lexington, KY 40508
USA
Home: 859-373-8174
Work: 859-281-3543
kamiller@transy.edu

Mshana, Fadhili S.
Art Department
Georgia College State University
CBX 94
Milledgeville, GA 31061
USA
Home: 478-453-2396
Work: 478-445-2430
Fax: 478-445-6088
fadhili.mshana@gscu.edu
www.gscu.edu/art

Nagy, Rebecca Martin
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
University of Florida
P.O. Box 112700
Gainesville, FL 32611-2700
USA
Work: 352-392-9826
Fax: 352-392-3892
rnagy@harn.ufl.edu
www.harn.ufl.edu

Nicholls, Robert W.
Division of Education
University of the Virgin Islands
2 Brewer's Bay
St. Thomas, VI 00802
USA
Home: 340-776-2689
Work: 340-693-1184
Fax: 340-693-1335
rnicholl@uvi.edu


Nicolls, Andrea
National Museum of African Art/SI
Curatorial
1311 Delaware Avenue SW, #8730
Washington, DC 20024
USA
Home: 202-484-0088
Work: 202-633-4622
Fax: 202-357-4879
andrea@si.edu

Nunley, John
Africa, Oceania, and The Americas
Saint Louis Art Museum
1 Fine Arts Drive
Saint Louis, MO 63110
USA
Home: 314-646-8736
Work: 314-655-5217
Fax: 314-721-6172
jnunley@slam.org

Ogbechie, Sylvester 0.
Dept of History of Art + Architecture
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7080
USA
Work: 805-893-5619
Fax: 805-893-7117
ogbechie@arthistory.ucsb.edu

Ottenberg, Simon
University of Washington
1420 41" Avenue E
Seattle, WA 98112
USA
Home: 206-720-7150
Work: 206-720-7150
Fax: 206-720-0332
otten@u.washington.edu

Peek, Philip M.
Department of Anthropology
Drew University
36 Madison Ave.
Madison, NJ 07940
USA
Work: 973-408-3383
Fax: 973-408-3768
ppeek@drew.edu

Perrill, Elizabeth A.
Art History
Indiana University
Fine Arts, Room 132
Bloomington, IN 47405
USA
Home: 812-323-8541
Work: 812-855-9556
Fax: 812-855-9556
eperrill@indiana.edu






Petridis, Constantijn (Costa)
Art History and Art, and African Art
Case Western Reserve University &
Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797
USA
Home: 216-544-6574
Work: 216-707-2678
Fax: 216-421-9409
cpetridis@clevelandart.org

Picton, John
Emeritus Professor of African Art
SOAS, University of London
Hillcrest Lodge, Broadway Road
Evesham, WR11 3HG
UNITED KINGDOM
Home: +44 [0] 1386 424611
home@jpicton.demon.co.uk

Plankensteiner, Barbara
Africa Department
Museum Fur Volkerkunde
Neue Burg
Wien, 1010
AUSTRIA
Home: 43-1-7868310
Work: 43-1-53430-219
Fax: 43-1-53430-230
barbara. plankensteiner@ethno-musuem.ac.at

Posnansky, Merrick
Departments of History and Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
5107 Rubio Avenue
Encino, CA 91436-1124
USA
Home: 818-986-1381
Fax: 818-986-2014
merrick@history.ucla.edu

Poynor, Robin
School of Art and Art History
University of Florida
102 FAA, P.O. Box 115801
Gainesville, FL 32611-5801
USA
Home: 352-372-2499
Work: 352-392-0201 x223
rpoynor@ufl.edu

Prussin, Labelle
Independent Scholar
3 Anders Lane
Pomona, NY 10970
USA
Home: 845-354-8964
Fax: 845-354-8964
lprussin@aol.com


Reid Murphy, Deborah
Education
North Carolina Museum of Art
4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699
USA
Home: 919-957-7074
Work: 919-839-6262 x2199
Fax: 919-733-8034
drml 11@duke.edu

Renne, Elisha
Department of Anthropology; CAAS
University of Michigan
1020 LSA Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382
USA
Home: 734-996-5903
Work: 734-647-9622
erenne@umich.edu
www-personal.umich.edu/~erenne/

Riep, David M. M.
Art History
University of Kentucky
601 Bohicket Drive
Wilmore, KY 40390
USA
Home: 859-858-4756
Work: 859-257-9000
dmmriep@hotmail.com

Roberts, Allen F.
Dept of World Arts & Cultures, African Studies
Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310
USA
Home: 310-470-7705
Work: 310-825-3686
Fax: 310-206-2250
aroberts@arts.ucla.edu

Roberts, Mary (Polly) Nooter
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549
USA
Home: 310-470-7705
Work: 310-825-9025
Fax: 310-206-7007
proberts@arts.ucla.edu

Ross, Doran H.
11930 Dorothy #2
Los Angeles, CA 90049
USA
Home: 310-207-1701
Fax: 310-207-1701
dross@arts.ucla.edu







Ross, Emma
Departmentof the Histdory of Art
Yale University
434 Elm St.
New Haven, MA 06511
USA
Home: 203-776-5464
emma.ross@yale.edu

Rovine, Victoria L.
Art History and Center for African Studies
University of Florida
Fine Arts Bldg. C, Box 115801
Gainesville, FL 32601
USA
Work: 352-392-0201 x226
vrovine@ufl.edu

Rush, Dana
Art History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
143 Ar t and Design Building, 408 East Peabody
Street
Champaign, IL 61820
USA
Home: 217-356-9447
Work: 217-265-6358
Fax: 217-333-3581
danarush@ucic.edu

Schildkrout, Enid
Anthropology Department
American Museum of Natural History/Museum for
African Art
393 West End Avenue
New York, NY 10024-
USA
Home: 212-362-0491
Work: 212-769-5432
Fax: 212-769-5334
eschild@amnh.org
www.amnh.org

Schneider, Elizabeth Ann (Betty)
Independent Scholar
876 Melville Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
USA
Home: 650-328-3448
Fax: 650- 328-3448
betty@schneider.net; schneide@stanford.edu

Scothorn, Hilary L.
Art History
Florida State University
4821 Bakman Ave.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
USA
Home: 818-635-4489
hilaryls@aol.com


Scott, Victoria
Black Arts Studio
708 Don Felix
Santa Fe, NM 87501
USA
Home: 505-986-9143
Work: 505-992-3372
vikki@blackartstudio.com

Seligman, Thomas K.
Cantor Center for Visual Arts
Stanford University
328 Lomita Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
USA
Work: 650-725-0462
Fax: 650-725-0464
seligman@stanford.edu

Shilosky, Christine
Anthropology
Hunter College
25-73 45th St. #1F
Long Island City, NY 11103
USA
Home: 718-728-0799
Work: 212-944-8824
c.shilosky@worldnet.att.net

Sieber, Sophie
Indiana University
114 Glenwood East
Bloomington, IN 47401
USA
Home: 812-332-6945
Work: 812-855-1098
Fax: 812-855-9556

Siegmann, William
Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
USA
Home: 718-499-7841
Work: 718-501-6281
Fax: 718-501-6140
william.siegmann@brooklynmuseum.org

Silverman, Raymond A.
Department of the History of Art;
Director Museum Studies Program
University of Michigan
519 S. State Street, Tappan Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1357
USA
Home: 734-913-7931
Work: 734-615-9847; 734-764-5400 (msg)
Fax: 734-647-4121
silveray@umich.edu
www.msu.edu/~silveray/






Singletary, Richard A.
Singletary Gallery & African Art Museum
3600 Greenwood Dr.
Portsmouth, VA 23701-3341
USA
Home: 757-487-7362
Work: 757-487-7362
Fax: 757-487-1928
rasingle@aol.com

Slogar, Christopher
Dept. of Art History & Archaeology
University of Maryland
10982 Roebling Avenue, #553
Los Angeles, CA 90024
USA
Home: 213-550-9125
slogarc@hotmail.com

Smith, Earl P.
2930 Old Farm Road
Montgomery, AL 36111
USA
Home: 334-834-0961
earlsm@pobox.com

Smith, Fred T.
School of Art
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
USA
Home: 330-678-1556
Work: 330-672-1369
fsmith@kent.edu

Smith, Nicole
Art and Design
Georgia State University
8307 Peachford Circle
Dunwoody, GA 30338
nicole.smith@woodruffcenter.org

Sobania, Neal
Department of History
Hope College
A-3930 Beeline Rd.
Holland, MI 49423
USA
Home: 616-335-9670
Work: 616-395-7605
Fax: 616-395-7937
sobania@hope.edu

Spencer, Anne M.
1103 Kensington Ave.
Plainfield, NJ 07060
USA
Home: 908-561-6385


Stanley, Janet
National Museum of African Art Library/SI
1791 Lanier Place, NW, Apt. 24
Washington, DC 20009
USA
Work: 202-633-4681
Fax: 202-357-4879
jstanley@si.edu

Stelzig, Christine
Droysenstrasse 17
Berlin, D-10629
GERMANY
Home: 49-030-324-9613
Fax: 49-030-324-9613
chris.stelzig@snafu.de

Szombati, Ilona J.
Retired
Pres. Kennedylaan 235
Amsterdam 1079MG
THE NETHERLANDS

Teel, William E.
361 Ocean Ave.
Marblehead, MA 01945
USA
Work: 781-729-8000

Thompson, Barbara
Hood Museum of Art
Dartmouth College
Wilson Hall 132
Hanover, NH 03755
USA
Home: 603-542-8829
Work: 603-6464-3811
Fax: 603-646-1400
barbara.thompson@dartmouth.edu

Thompson, Carol
Richman Family Foundation
Curator of African Art
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
USA
Home: 404-873-9923; 404-388-9990 (cell)
Work: 404-733-4399
Fax: 404-733-4502
carol.thompson@woodruffcenter.org
www.high.org

Thompson, Robert F.
Department of the History of Art
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
USA







Trager, Lillian
Dept. of Sociology &-Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Wood Road, Box 2000
Kenosha, WI 53141
USA
Home: 262-632-4610
Work: 262-595-2543
Fax: 262-595-2183
trager@uwp.edu

Van Dyke, Kristina
The Menil Collection
1604 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
USA
Home: 617-939-6145
kristinevandyke@aol.com

Viditz-Ward, Vera
Department of Art and Art History
Bloomsburg University
Old Science Hall
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
USA
Home: 570-387-0967
Work: 570-389-4851
widitz@bloomu.edu

Vogel, Jerome (Jerry)
Museum for African Art, NY, and Drew University
108 Wooster Street, 5L
New York, NY 10012
USA
Home: 212-226-2080
Work: 718-784-7760 x123
Fax: 718-784-7718
jvogel@africanart.org

Vogel, Susan
Prince Street Pictures
112 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
USA
Work: 212-966-7787
Fax: 212-431-3930
svogel@igc.org

Walker, Harriet
Art History
CUNY Graduate Center
41-29 46th St., Apt. 5L
Sunnyside, NY 11104
USA
Home: 718-937-7059
harriet.walker@umb.edu; harrietwalk-
er42@yahoo.com


Walker, Roslyn A.
Arts of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 N. Harwood
Dallas, TX 75201
USA
Home: 214-443-9972
Work: 214-922-1225
Fax: 214-720-0862
rwalker@DallasMuseumofArt.org
www.DallasMuseumofArtart.org

Willett, Frank
583 Anniesland Road
Glasgow, Scotland G13 1UX
UNITED KINGDOM
Home: 41-959-3424
Work: 41-959-3424
Fax: 41-954-7028

Wittmer, Marcilene K.
Department of Art andArt History
University of Miami
4857 Ponce de Leon Blvd.
Coral Gables, FL 33146
USA
Home: 305-661-9069
mkwmiami@aol.com



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Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
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Fine Arts
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Azuka, Mr. Osuji George
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Bester, Mr. Rory M.
Garduate School for the Humanities and Social
Sciences
Wits University, Johannesburg
P. O. Box 91203
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Buhari, Mr. Jerry
Department of Fine Arts
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria, Kaduna State
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Chukwuezi, Mr. Barth K.
Dept of Sociology/Anthropology
University of Nigeria
Nsukka, Enugu State
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Dawson, Mr. G. W. K.
Fine Arts and Contemporary Fine Arts
Dawson Art Centre
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West African Museums Program (WAMP)
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Ebigbo, Mr. Christopher
Department of Fine Arts
University of Benin
P.M.B. 1154
Benin City, Edo State
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Egonwa, Mr. Osa D.
Department of Fine, Applied & Performing Arts
Delta State University
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Ekpo, Ms. Violetta I.
Department for Musuems
National Commission for Musuems and Monu-
ments
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Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Emory University
PO Box 175
Lamu
KENYA
Home: 256-722-859594
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Faguyigbe, Michael Obesegun
Fine Arts Department
Obafemi Awolowo University, lie Ife
lie Ife, Osun State 220005
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Home: +234 080 365 7834
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Department of Industrial Design
Federal University of Tehcnology
P.M.B. 704
Akure, Ondo State
NIGERIA
Home: 080-353-80925
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Foliranma, A. Stephen
Department of Fine Arts
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife, Osun 220005
NIGERIA
Home: 01-4738100
Work: 234 08034053669
Fax: 17029731809
folasteve@yahoo.com

Fowowe, Dr. M. Oladipo
Department of Fine & Applied Arts
University of Benin
PMB 1154
Benin City, Edo State
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Home: 08056111246

Freeborn, Odiboh
Department of Fine and Applied Arts
University of Benin
Ekenwan Campus
Benin-City, Edo State 234
Nigeria
Home: GSM 08033552245
freebyl 121 @justice.com

Freschi, Federico
History of Art
University of Witwatersrand
20 Rouket Road, Kensington
Johannesburg, 2094
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Home: +27 11 624 2218
Work: +27 11 717 4611
Fax: +27 11 339 7601
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Glover, Mr. Ablade
Artists Alliance Gallery
P. O. Box 718
Teshie Nungua. Accra
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Musde Ethnographique Alescandre Senou Abande
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Painting
PACA
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Department of Archaeology
University of Nigeria
Nsukka, Enugu State
NIGERIA
aibeanu@yahoo.com

Ijisakin, Eyitayo Tolulope
Department of Fine Arts
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife, Osun
NIGERIA
Home: 234 036 233280
Work: 234 0803 385 6772
visn4exelence@ureach.com

Ijisakin, Yemi Olaolu
Fine Arts
Obafemi Awolowo University, lie Ife
lie Ife, Osun State 220005
NIGERIA
Work: +234 080 335 594 292

Ikenegbu, Mr. Okay
P. 0. Box 9032
Enugu, Enugu State
NIGERIA
Home: 042-552665
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Ikpakronyi, Mr. Simon Odey
Research and Education
National Gallery of Art
P.M.B. 456
Garki-Abuja
NIGERIA
Home: 0802 353 9464
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Kankpeyeng, Mr. Benjamin W.
Upper East Regional Museum
Ghana Museums and Monuments Board
P. O. Box 86
Bolgatanga, U.E.R.
GHANA
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Work: 233-72-23327
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Lilian, Pilaku
Curatorial Services Department
National Gallery of Art, Nigeria
Olusegun Obasanjo Way, Zone 7, Wuse
Abuja, FCT
NIGERIA
Home: 08023183691
Work: 08037867449
tchy30@yahoo.com

Makinde, David Olajide
Fine Arts
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
House C4, Road 15, O.A.U.
Ile-Ife, Osun 220005
NIGERIA
Home: 08034037585

Makinde, Mr. Olakunle Williams
Head, Archaeology Division
National Museum
P.M.B. 2031
Jos, Plateau State
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Home: 234-08023088204
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Gambia National Library
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Chancellary Department (MPI)
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Library
National Gallery of Zimbabwe Library
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Harare
ZIMBABWE
Home: 797998
Work: 704667
Fax: 704668
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Ndlovu, Mr. Dumisani
Treasurer
Visual Artists' Association of Bulawayo
72644 Lobengula West, P. 0. Magwegwe
Bulawayo
ZIMBABWE
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Nettleton, Anitra C.E.
History of Art, Wits School of Art
University of the Witwatersrand
PO Wits
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2050
South Africa
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Ndu Fon's Palace
P. O. Box 68
Ndu, Donga Mantung Division, NWP.
CAMEROON

Ngumah, Hyacinth Chidozie
Fine and Applied Arts
Alvan Ikoku College of Eduction, Owerri
PMB 1033
Owerri, IMO
Nigeria
Home: 08028342857
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Ngumah, Hyacinth Chidozie
Fine and Applied Arts
Alvan Ikoku College of Eduction, Owerri
PMB 1033
Owerri, IMO
Nigeria
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Niederstadt, Leah-N.
Oxford University-Wolfson College
AND Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa
University
P.O. Box 43395
Addis Abba
ETHIOPIA
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Work: 2519-627955
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ORSTOM
B.P. 1857
Yaound6
CAMEROON
Home: 237 991-59-77
Work: 237 220-15-08
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Odimayo, Mr. Olasehinde
Treasure House Fine Art Limited
#8a, Ogundana Street, off Allen Ave
P.M.B. 21070
Ikeja, Lagos
NIGERIA
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Enugu State Housing Development Corporation
P.M.B. 01123
Enugu, Enugu
Nigeria
Work: 042-253666, 253756
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Ogu-Raphael, Ifeanyi
Department of Performing Arts
Delta State University
Abraka, Delta State
NIGERIA
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ifeanyigod@yahoo.com

Ogunduyile, Dr. S. R.
Department of Industrial Design
Federal University of Technology
Akure, Ondo State
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Ojo, Mr. Bankole
Department of Industrial Design
Federal University of Tehcnology
Akure, Ondo State
NIGERIA
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Okafoizuna, Mr. Ejike F.
National Gallery of Modern Art
PMB 138
Abakaliki 480001, Ebonyi State
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Okonkwo, Emecka Emmanuel
Dept of Archaeology and Tourism
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Nsukka, Enugu State NIGERIA
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Okpe, Mr. Tonie
Department of Fine Arts
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria, Kaduna State
NIGERIA
Home: 234-0803-7037443
Work: 234-69-550652
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Department of Archaeology and Tourism
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Nsukka, Enugu State
NIGERIA
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202 Road B, Close Block C, Flat 1
Festac, Lagos 102001
NIGERIA
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Olanipekun, Tunde S.
Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA)
Baffles Art Gallery
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Ikeja, Lagos
NIGERIA
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Work: 234-08045106409
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Department of History
University of Ilorin
P.M.B. 1515
Ilorin, Kwara
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124 Station Road
Oshogbo, Oshun State
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Olumide, Mr. Bakare Olayinka
University of Ado-Ekiti
Home Economics
Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education
Otto-Ijanikan, Lagos
NIGERIA
Home: 08034018616
africanessentials@yahoo.com

Oshinowo, Mr. Kolade
Department of Fine Arts
Yaba College of Technology
P.M.B. 2011
Yaba, Lagos
NIGERIA
Home: 234 01 4707687
Work: 234 0 8033037688
koshinowo@yahoo.com

Otu, John
Fine Arts
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria, Kaduna
NIGERIA
Home: 234-08023669435
Work: 234-08023669435
otwootuj@yahoo.com

Oyebowale, Mr. Olalekan J.
P. O. Box 567
Oshogbo, OShgun State 234
NIGERIA
Work: 035 243929
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Oyelola, Dr. Pat
P. 0. Box 30385
Secretariat P. 0.
Ibadan, Oyo State
NIGERIA
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Price, Dr. Sally
97217 Anses d'Arlet
Anse Chaudiere, 97217
MARTINIQUE
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sally.price@earthlink.net
www.richandsally.net


Raji-Oyelade, Dr. Aderemi
Department of English
University of Ibadan
Ibadan, Oyo
NIGERIA
remraj1@yahoo.com

Rotimi, Mr. Isamuko
Merit Colour Laboratory
No. 26 Oyo Road
Mokola
Ibadan, Oyo State
NIGERIA
rotizoartgallery@yahoo.com

Schmahmann, Brenda
Fine Art
Rhodes University
Grahamstown, 6140
SOUTH AFRICA
Home: (27 46) 622-8403
Work: (27 46) 603-8193
Fax: (27 46) 622-4349
B.Schmahmann@ru.ac.za

Seidensticker-Brikay, Gisela
Centre for Trans-Saharan Studies
P.M.B. 1069
Maiduguri, Borno State
NIGERIA
Home: 076 236 530
gilliam22002@yahoo.co.uk

Ssebayigga, Mr. Burhan
African Research Center for the Preservation of
Islamic Heritage
P.O. Box 2636
Kampala
UGANDA
Home: 256-077-657045
Work: 256-041-530106
ssebayigga@yahoo.co.uk

Steele, Mr. John
Border Technikon
School of Applied Art
34 Fitzpatrick Road
Quigney 5201, East London
SOUTH AFRICA
Home: 043-7220188
Work: cell: 0834526653
Isteele@iafrica.co.za







Steyn, Ms. Eileen Woodhouse, Mr. H. C
Alan Pittendigh Library 1 Buckingham Avenue
Technikon Natal Craighall Park
P.O. Box 953 Johannesburg 2196, 2196
Durban 4000 SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA Home: 011-7878688
Work: +27 31 204 2524
Fax: +27 31 204 2367
steyn@dit.ac.za
www.dit.ac.za

Ubani, Mr. Kenneth
Department of Creative Arts
University of Lagos
Lagos, Lagos State
NIGERIA
Home: 0803 3428 5344
kenuba2002@yahoo.com

Udeani, Nkem
Department of Fine & Applied Arts (Industrial De-
sign)
University of Nigeria
Federal University of Technology Yola
Jimenta-Yola
NIGERIA
Home: 08042115764
Work: 0751627313
nkemudeani0l @yahoo.com

Van Schalkwyk, Dr. Johnny A.
Anthropology and Archaeology
National Cultural History Museum
P.O. Box 28088
0132 Sunnyside, Pretoria
SOUTH AFRICA
Work: +27 12 324 6082
Fax: +27 12 328 5173
www.geocites.com/nchmuseum

Wade, Mr. James H.
Creative Arts
University of Maiduguri
P.O. Box 5441P.M.B. 1069
Maiduguri, Borno State 600001
NIGERIA
Home: +234 076 236 054
jimwade@mandaras.info

Whittle, Janice
National Cultural Foundation (Barbados)
16 Warners GDNS
Christ Church
BARBADOS
Home: 246-437-1514
Work: 246-429-3117/424-0909
curatorqpg@lycos.com
www.ncf,bb








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About ACASA

The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) was established in 1982 as an
independent non-profit professional association affiliated with the African Studies Association
(ASA) in the United States. The organization exists to facilitate communication among schol-
ars, teachers, artists, museum specialists and all others interested in the arts of Africa and
the African Diaspora. Its goals are to promote greater understanding of African material and
expressive culture in all its many forms, and to encourage contact and collaboration with Afri-
can and Diaspora artists and scholars.

As an ASA-sponsored association, ACASA recommends panels for inclusion in the ASA an-
nual meeting program on such wide ranging topics as the interpretation of meanings in Afri-
can art, agency and performance, connoisseurship and aesthetics, the ethics of field collect-
ing and research, the illicit trade in antiquities, museum exhibition strategies, the use of archi-
val sources, as well as issues concerning various historical and contemporary artists and ar-
tistic traditions.

ACASA's annual business meeting is held during the ASA meeting each fall. ACASA is also
an affiliated society of the College Art Association, and meets on an ad hoc basis at its an-
nual conference.

ACASA hosts a Tri-ennial Symposium featuring a rich program of panels and cultural activi-
ties, workshops for museum professionals. A Leadership Award for exemplary and intellec-
tual excellence and two Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Awards in recognition of books
of original scholarship and excellence in visual presentation are bestowed at each sympo-
sium.

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