Born and raised in New York City and Hempstead, NY, Henry Drewal received his BA from Hamilton College majoring in French and minoring in Fine Arts. After graduation he joined the Peace Corps, taught French and English and organized vacation arts camps in Nigeria. It was during his two years in Nigeria that he apprenticed himself to a Yoruba sculptor. That experience was transformative.

He returned home, entered graduate school at Columbia University in African Studies with an interdisciplinary specialization in African art history, anthropology, and history, studying under Professors Douglas Fraser, Paul Wingert, Hans Himmelheber, Monni Adams, Margaret Mead, Graham Irwin, and David Scanlon. He received two Masters' degrees (1968/69) and a PhD from Columbia in 1973.

From 1973 to 1990, he taught at The Cleveland State University (where he was chair of the Art Department , developed a collection of African and African Diaspora art, and curated several exhibitions). He was also a Visiting Professor at SUNY-Purchase (1986) and the University of California-Santa Barbara (1988).

He has served as Curator of African Art at the Neuberger Museum-SUNY-Purchase (1986), The Cleveland Museum of Art (1988-90), and Curator of African Art at the Toledo Museum of Art (1989). Since 1991, he was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Adjunct Curator of African Art at the Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison until December 2019 when he retired to become Evjue-Bascom Professor Emeritus. Since 2022, he has been a Visiting Scholar in the Black Studies Department of Amherst College.

Over the years, he has published several books and edited volumes and more than 100 articles on various aspects of African art, primarily on the arts of Yoruba-speaking peoples of West Africa and the Yoruba diaspora in the Americas . He has curated many exhibitions of African art, among them: Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (1989) which toured seven US cities, and Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe (with John Mason), which toured five US cities between 1998-2000. The book/catalogue for this exhibition was a finalist for the Arts Council of the ASA award in 2001.

Since 2001, he has been researching (funded with a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies) the arts, identities, cultures, and histories of African descendants in India, helping to establish the Siddi Women’s Quilting Cooperative and organizing several exhibitions and sales of their quilts. In addition, he was the guest curator at the Fowler Museum at UCLA for a major traveling exhibition entitled "Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas” and is the editor of the “Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and other Water Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora" which was published by Indiana University Press in 2008 and winner of the 2011 ACASA Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award.

In 2009 he wrote the catalogue essay for Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, a major international traveling exhibition that opened in Santander, Spain before going to Madrid and London. It began its tour in Houston and then Virginia Museum of Fine Art (2011) and finally at the Indianapolis Museum of Art where it closed in January 2012, and returned to Nigeria later that year. In the fall 2012 he completed work on the first permanent gallery of African art at the Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, with the collaboration of many of his undergraduate and graduate students. In 2013 he curated "Double Fortune, Double Trouble: Art for Twins among the Yoruba" for the Fowler Museum at UCLA, as part of their 50th Anniversary celebrations. In Fall 2017 he curated with his students "Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egungun Arts of the Yoruba in Africa and Beyond" at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery-UW-M (January-April 2018), and completed work with a team of colleagues on the traveling exhibition "Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths" that opened at the Fowler Museum-UCLA, before traveling to the National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian in Washington, DC and then the Musée Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris, France where he screened two of his artful documentaries: Ogun's Laugh is no Laughing Matter! Celebration the God of Iron and BLACKsmiths of Morocco.

During his "re-tryment" he continues to create a series of documentaries on African and African Diaspora arts and cultures that will be listed here and available via his Vimeo site as well as publicly on blacfoundation.org. He continues to write articles on African/Diaspora arts and artists, teach a course on African art and architecture in the British Virgin Islands, and also made ceramics and various wood-carving projects such as walking sticks, sculptures, letterpress posters, and funky bird/bat houses among other things.

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Henry John Drewal

68 Comins Road
Hadley, MA 01035

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250 W. 90th Street – Apt 8D
New York, NY 10024

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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.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (TEACHING):

2021-24	Visiting Professor, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
2021-24	Visiting Scholar, Black Studies, Amherst College.
2019-present	Evjue-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1990-2019	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.

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PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, CATALOGS, EDITED VOLUMES):

In Progress	Sensiotics: Senses and Understandings of the Arts in Africa, and Elsewhere (multi-sensory book-length mss)
2019	Co-editor and author (with Tom Joyce, Allen F. Roberts, and Marla Berns lead editors), Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths. LA: Fowler Museum of UCLA and University of Washington Press, 510pp. See also: Chapter 3, Chapter 12 and EVITE
2013	Guest Editor with article and bibliography, special issue on Afro-India for African Arts, 46, 1, Spring.
2009/2010	Dinastia y Divinidad: Arte Ife en Antiqua Nigeria (with Enid Schildkrout). Santander, Spain: Fundacion Marcelino Botin and the Museum for African Art, NY. 521 pp. [2010 editions: Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. London: The British Museum Press and the Museum for African Art, NY. 184 pp. and Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria. New York: Museum for African Art, 184 pp.]
2008	Editor, Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and other Water Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 681 pp. [46 contributors, plus DVD] [Winner of the 2011 ACASA Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award]
2008	Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of UCLA and University of Washington Press, 227 pp.
2006	Sensing Spirit, Healing with Art: Arturo Lindsay. Catalogue essay, Sumter Gallery, SC, 26 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. Also see: Revealing Forms Pamphlet
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. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF
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.

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PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES):

In Progress	"Incarner le savoir: le rôle des sens dans la compréhension de l'art, de la culture et de l'histoire,' proposed for Anthropology Journal, École des Hautes Études en Science Sociale, Paris, France. [expected 2024-25]
In Progress	Preface for Dança Entre dois Mundos, edited by Zeca Ligeiro to be published in Brazil.
In Progress	eBook re-issue of Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, 681 pp. [46 contributors, plus DVD compiled by Andy Dayton] [Winner of the 2011 ACASA Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award].
In Progress	Co-author (with Sauda Smith), article on Lukumi Sacred Arts and Artists.
In Progress	Museum label and film for a Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ mask in the new Princeton University Art Museum.
In Press	“Curating African Atlantic Art: Dimensions in Black Art and Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent,” in Eddie Chambers, ed. Routledge Handbook of African Diaspora Art History (London: Routledge)
In Press	“Harmonic Artistry: The Photographs of Mohamed A. Yakub,” in ‘BioDun Ogundayo, ed. Afrofuturisms II
2024	Introduction and images for essay by Bode Oje, « Egungun : Reminiscence of Color, Dance, and Fun, » for African Arts, Winter, 57, 4, pp. 60-79.
2024	"Beading Brilliance: Joyce J. Scott and YoruÌbaì Bead Artistry," in Joyce J. Scott, Walk a Mile in my Dreams, Catharina Manchanda and Cecilia Wichmann, eds. (Yale University of Press, New Haven and London), pp. 225-231. [revised and expanded version of 2022 essay on Joyce J. Scott].
2023	“Regina Francis, Siddi quilter at IFAM, July 2017,” https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=stories&kid=62-186-63
2023	“Birds of Prey, ‘Our Mothers,’ and Women of Power: The ‘Spirit Bird of Night’ Masquerade in Yorùbá Art and Thought,” Robert J. Wallis, ed. The Art and Archeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp.185-198.
2022	“Joyce J. Scott: Art, Life, and Luminosity,” catalog for the national traveling exhibition Joyce J. Scott Messages, Mobilia Art Gallery, Cambridge, MA, pp.13-17.
2022	“Honoring Doran Ross—The Beads, Body, & Soul Project & Beyond,” African Arts, 55, 1, Spring, pp.48-50.
2020	“Sensiotics: Senses in Understandings of the Arts, Culture, and History of Yorùbá People in Africa and the African Diaspora,” in Center40: National Gallery of Art-Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, pp. 76-79.
2020	“Soulful Stitching, Social Action: Patchwork Quilts by African Indians (Siddis) of Northern Karnataka-India,” Black Ambassadors of Politics, Religion, and Jazz in India, (Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora, Volume 2) eds. Omar Ali, Kenneth Robbins, Beheroze Shroff, and Jazmin Graves. pp.180-197. An excerpt of this article appears in the journal Piecework (Fall 2022, pp.12-15).
2020	“Sensiotics or the Senses in Understandings of Material Culture and History in Africa and Beyond,” Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture. Oxford University Press, Chapter 14, pp.269-288.
2019	“Revelations: Bitter History, Enduring Spirit in the Art of Daniel Minter,” essay for OTHERED:Displaced from Malaga, Art Gallery-University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine, pp.20-39.  Revelations: Bitter History, Enduring Spirit in the Art of Daniel Minter @ danielminter.net
2019	“Cosmos and Culture: Yoruba Arts for Divinities, Ancestors, and Guests,” Engaging African Art: Highlights from the Horn Collection, The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, pp.21-25.
2018	“Mami Wata” article for Women in the World’s Religions and Spirituality website [reprint of 2008 article in African Arts].
2018	“Creating Mami Wata: An Interactive, Sensory Exhibition” in David Howes (ed.), Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources, vols. I-IV. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Read @ ResearchGate
2018	Essay and eight catalogue entries for Arts of Global Africa: The Newark Museum Collection, edited by Christa Clarke, pp. 118-122, 194-197, 212-227, 240-245.
2017	“Spirit in the Art of Carlos Luna,” Catalogue essay for the Cuban artist Carlos Luna: The Green Machine. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, pp.20-29 (English & French).
2017	Co-author/editor (with C. Daniel Dawson), "Posse Praise Poem for Robert Farris Thompson," African Arts, 50th Anniversary issue devoted to "Elders and Ancestors," pp. 62-81. Alternate pdf version
2017	“Mami Wata,” catalogue essay for Musee Quai Branly-Paris exhibition, L'Afrique des Routes dans l'Histoire (Paris: Musee Quai Branly), pp. 228-232.
2016	A revised excerpt of "Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Egungun Masquerades Among the Yoruba" in Homegoings, Crossings, and Passings: Life and Death in the African Diaspora, edited by Regennia Williams, 175–206. NJ: Africa World Press, 2011 – with 10-minute video of Egungun performances filmed by author in 1986.
2016	"Ifa: Visual and Sensorial Aspects," in Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance Olupona, J. and R. A. Abiodun, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 325-339.
2015	“Enramada: Bringing People Together,” Catalogue essay for Dominican artist Charo Oquet and her performance project Arrayanos about Haitian/Dominican immigration justice.
2015	“What’s in a Name?” in Squad: The Calling of the Common Hero – Photography by Faisal Abdu’Allah, Chazen Museum of Art, pp. 5-6.
2015	Yoruba entries for Scheller Collection catalogue, Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture, de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, Munich: Prestel and Delmonico Books, pp. 86-89.
2015	“Mami Wata,” Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, Joseph Miller, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 316-319.
2014	“Art and Offerings for Gods, Ancestors, and Guests,” in L’Art de Manger: Rites et Traditions en Afrique, Insulinde, et Oceanie, exhibition catalogue, Musee Dapper, Paris: Editions Dapper, pp. 108-127, 393.
2014	“Foreword,” Ere Yoruba: Quintessential Art by Yoruba Master Carvers by Craig D. Fashoro. Canada: Artbookbindery, pp. vii-viii.
2013	"A Reunion of Minds and Visions," Foreword for The Return of Ona (Obafemi Awolowo University).
2013	“Senses and Form-Words: Exploring Yoruba Art,” African Art: the Leslie Sacks Collection. Los Angeles.
2013	“Beads, Body-Minds, and the Senses,” essay for the catalogue The Beaded Prayers Project by Sonya Clark. Doha, State of Qatar: Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, pp. 10-15.
2013	“Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Arts in Africa”, in Companion to Modern African Art, Salami, G. and M. Visona, eds. NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp.23-50.
2013	“Africa in New Orleans: Creole Complexities in Racist America,” African Arts, 46, 2, Summer, pp. 86-87.
2013	“Departures,” in Air, Land, Seed, eCatalogue for Venice Biennale exhibition,May 27-June 3, p26.
2013	“Ocean Porfolio/Mami Wata,” in World Ocean Journal, Volume 1, Spring, pp. 8-15.
2013	“Foreword” – Vodun, Voodoo, Vodou: Spirits (book and film) by Henning Christoph. Leipzig, Germany, pp. 4-7.
2013	“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,” African Arts, 46, 1, Spring, cover, pp. 617, 26-9
2012	“Beauteous Beast: The Water Deity Mami Wata in Africa” in Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, A. Mittman and P. Dendle, eds. (Farnham, Surrey-UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.), pp.77-101.
2012	Creating Mami Wata: An Interactive, Sensory Exhibition,” Museum Anthropology (UK), Volume 35, 1, pp. 49-57.
2012	“Forever Modern: Mami Wata Visual Culture and History in Africa,” in The Visual Culture Reader (3rd Ed.), edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, pp.384-397.
2011	“Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Egungun Masquerades among the Yoruba,” in Homegoings, Regennia Williams, ed. NJ: Africa World Press.
2011	"The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World," in Africana Heritage, NYPL, Volume 11, 2, pp. 6-7.
2011	Five catalogue entries of Yoruba objects, Ancestors of Congo Square, William Fagaley, ed. (New Orleans Museum of Art).
2010	“The Odyssey of an Image and Its Meanings: Snake Charmer, Mami Wata, and Santa Marta la Dominadora,” Actualidad de las Tradiciones Espirituales y Culturales Africanas en el Caribe y Latinoamerica (Primer y Segundo Simposio). San Juan and Loiza, PR: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe y Instituto de las Tradiciones Afrocaribenas (edited by Dra. Maria Elba Torres Munoz, Dra. Marta Moreno Vega, and Monica Cortes), pp. 95-120.
2010	“Evocative Form,” 10,000 Years of Beauty-Classical Age/Confrontations (Paris: Editions-Babylone), pp. 128-131.
2009	“Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria,” (with Enid Schildkrout), Tribal Art, Autumn (XIII, 4, number 53), pp.76-85.
2009	“Tasting Cultures: The Art of African/American Foodways,” (with Sarah K. Khan), brochure for the exhibition at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, SC. 5 pp.
2009	“Material, Sensorial Religion: The Case of Mami Wata,” in Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief (Amsterdam) 5, 2, Summer, pp.226-229. [with responses from Peter Probst and Mattijs van de Port].
2009	“Cloche” and “Masque Gelede” in Musee Quai Branly-La Collection (Paris: Editions SkiraFlammarion), pp. 40-41, 72-73.
2008	“Establishing the Field,” Interview with Nancy Marie Mithlo as part of Visiting: Conversations on Curatorial Practice and Native North American Art. The American Indian Curatorial Practice (AICP) symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 25-27 (Funded by the Ford Foundation).
2008	“Thomas Moulero: Ketu Historian of Gelede,” in ejournal – University of African Art.
2008	"Arts and Agency: Patchwork Quilts and Quilting Cooperative of Siddis of Northern Karnataka, India," in TADIA: The African Diasporain Asia, Kiran Kamal Prasad and Jean-Pierre Angenot, eds. Bangalore: Jana Jagrati Prakashana, pp. 269-276.
2008	“Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas: Exhibition Preview,”in 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	“Soulful Stitching: 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. Also available in Spanish: Los sentidos en las interpretaciones del arte
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	“Yoruba Beadwork in Africa,” African Arts, 31, 1, Winter, pp.18-27, 94.
1998	"Costume in African Traditions," International Encyclopedia Of Dance. Vol 2. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, pp. 209-213.
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 ).
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.
1994	"Yoruba Art and Life as Journeys," in 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, pp. 93-99.
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]

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WRITINGS (UNPUBLISHED):

2017	The Africans (Siddis) of India: Histories, Cultures, and Arts

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PUBLICATIONS (REVIEWS):

In Progress	I Shall Spatter the Sky Utterly: Romauld Hazoumè, review of the exhibition curated by Kymberly S. Newberry at the Mt. Holyoke College Museum of Art, September 2023 – May 30, 2024, for African Arts, 58
2024	Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition, review of the exhibition and catalogue curated by James Green at Yale University Art Gallery, September 9, 2022 – January 8, 2023, for African Arts, 57, 1 (Spring 2024)
2022	Fromont, C., ed. 2019. Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. Reviewed for African Art, 55, 4 (Winter 2022), pp. 90-91.
2012	Carney, J. A. and R. N. Rosomoff. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical legacy in the Atlantic World. Berkeley: UC Press, 2009. Reviewed for the Journal of Economic Botany.
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.

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FILMS/VIDEOS: ( some films below are available at blacfoundation.org )

In Progress	Writer/Consultant – Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds (4-part documentary series), Director Raynald Leconte
In Progress	Omolekan: Master Weaver of the Ohori-Yoruba. Benin (R.P.B.), 16mm, 10 min., color
In Progress	Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egungun Arts of the Yoruba in the Black Atlantic. A 50-minute compilation of several films of Egungun masquerade festival arts in Nigeria, Benin, USA, and Brazil.
In Progress	Film/label for a Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ mask in the new Princeton University Art Museum (59 seconds, AI-enhanced).
In Progress	Omolekan: Master Weaver of the Ohori-Yoruba.  Benin (R.P.B.),  16mm, 10 min., color.
In Progress	Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egungun Arts of the Yoruba. A 50-minute compilation of several films of Egungun masquerade festival arts in Nigeria, Benin, USA, and Brazil.
2022	*Ogun’s Laughter is no Laughing Matter! Celebrating the God of Iron. Republic of Benin, 16mm, 25 min., color, sound, commentary in sub-titles, narration in Yorùbá and English.
2020	Honoring Ancestors – A 10-minute conversation about two Egungun ensembles in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, SoHE-UW-Madison.
2018	BLACKsmiths of Morocco. A 13-minute portrait of several blacksmiths in Morocco (screened at the Resignifications:Black Mediterranean conference, Palermo-Italy, June 6-10 and the Striking Iron symposium, Fowler Museum-UCLA BLACKsmiths of Morocco The opening of Striking Iron at Musée Quai Branly-Paris, November 19, 2019.
2018	Honoring Ancestors in Africa and Beyond: Arts and Actions, African Studies Program Symposium, April 6-7. A one hour, 15 minute edited video of the 2-day symposium -- https://whirlingancestors.wisc.edu/
2018	Celebrating Sacred Twins in Africa. A 6-minute documentary shown at the 20th Wisconsin Film Festival, April 11-12.
2017	"Africa's Vibrant Arts: Past and Present," hour-long interview on University Place, Wisconsin Public Television, May (aired in August – on WPT site).
2017	Honoring Ancestors: Egungun Festivals in Porto-Novo-Benin and Oyotunji African Village-South Carolina. 12-minute film edited by Aaron Granat.
2016	Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egungun Performances in Benin. A 10-minute compilation of Egungun performances in Benin, 2013, installed as part of the exhibition at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI.
2015	Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century – 50-minute documentary for IRH website, UW-Madison.
2015	Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century – 5-minute IRH Website video documentary, UW-Madison, online January.
2014	The 2004 Festival for Sacred Twins in Aneho, Togo -- a 10-minute film (one version with text, one with voice-over narration), plus all unedited footage (1 hour, 20 mins).
2013	Festival of Twins – Anecho, Togo, 2004. A 3-minute film for the Fowler Museum-UCLA 50th Anniversary, Fall.
2013	FauHaus: Bodies, Minds, Senses and the Arts. Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Seminar, Spring Semester (with Aaron Granat, filmmaker & Faisal Abdu’Allah, Artist-in-Residence).
2013	Festival of Twins – Anecho, Togo, 2004. A 3-minute film for the Fowler Museum-UCLA 50th Anniversary, Fall 2013.
2013	Egungun Masqueraders Honoring Twins. A 3-minute film for the Fowler Museum-UCLA 50th Anniversary, Fall 2013.
2011	Making and Masking. A 13-minute film for the African Art Gallery, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison.
2011	Scenes of Siddi Life: Karnataka, 2004. A 20-minute film (DVD) to accompany traveling exhibition.
2011	Yoruba Egungun Masking, film installed in New Orleans Museum of Art exhibitAncestors of Congo Square.
2011	Making and Masking (13-minute film for the African Art Gallery, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison.
2011	Yoruba Egungun Masking, film installed in New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit Ancestors of Congo Square.
2008	Flaming Crowns, Cooling Waters: Masquerades among the Ijebu-Yoruba. A 22-minute film (DVD) with narration and picture gallery.
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.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CURATORIAL):

In progress	Curatorial Consultant for the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History, Lagos, Nigeria (RAA Design Firm based in London, UK).
In progress	Consultant for the Spiral3 – African Homeland and Diasporas film with Raynald LeConte.
In progress	Consultant for Conjuring Collage: African Diaspora in the Art of Romare Bearden, an internationally traveling exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art-New Orleans, curated by Prof. Robert O'Meally, Columbia University.
2024	Curatorial Consultant, African art collection, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
2021	Co-curator (with Sarah K. Khan) – Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Siddis (Africans) of India, Cove Street Arts and Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland, ME, February 6-March 27.
2018	Co-Curator (with Head Curator Tom Joyce, and co-curators Allen Roberts, Bill Dewey), Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths. Being organized by the Fowler Museum-UCLA. (NEH Planning & Implementation Grants awarded – opening June 2-3, 2018).
2018	Curator, Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egungun Arts of the Yoruba in Africa and Beyond, exhibition at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery-SOHE, UW-Madison, January 24-April 8, 2018.
2017	Curator, Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA, February 13 - June 15, 2018.
2017	Co-curator (with Sarah Khan), exhibition and sale of Siddi quilts at the International Folk Art Market (IFAM), Santa Fe, NM, July 11 - 18, 2017.
2017	Co-organizer (with Cheryl Sterling) of a one-day Egungun/Ancestors Festival with film, talks & performances, CCNY, NY, May 11, 2017.
2016	Curator, Special exhibition of Siddi Patchwork Quilts, Modern Quilt Guild QuiltCon., Savannah, GA (2017).
2015	Co-Curator (with Sarah Khan), Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India, the African American Museum in Philadephia, September 2-January 30, 2016.
2014	Member, Curatorial Advisory Committee, the McMillan Collection, Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore.
2014	Co-Curator (with Brenda Baker), Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India, Madison Children’s Museum, February-June.
2013	Curator Double Fortune, Double Trouble: Art for Twins among the Yoruba, Fowler Museum-UCLA, Fall 2013.
2011	Co-Curator (with Sarah K. Khan), Tasting Cultures: The Arts of Latino Foodways, United Community Center, Milwaukee, WI, March 4-July 19.
2011	Curator, Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY, February 1-June 30. (a traveling exhibition)
2010	Curatorial Consultant, Art/Object: Recontextualizing African Art, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, July-August.
2009-10	Curator (with Professor Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis and Matthew Rarey) of the new permanent African art gallery, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison.
2009	Curator, Patchwork Quilts of the Africans (Siddis) of India (a traveling exhibition – see exhibitions).
2009	Curator, Joyful Blues: Yoruba Indigo Dyed Textile Arts (Adire) (a traveling exhibition– see exhibitions)
2009	Co-Curator (with Sarah K. Khan), Tasting Cultures: The Art of African/ American Foodways, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, SC, June 2-September 7.
2008	Curator, Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.  Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA.
2006	Curator, Siddi Quilt Turning, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-M, April 30.
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, Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India , Design Gallery, SOHE, UW-Madison, August-September.
2005	Curator, Soulful Stitching: 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.

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CONFERENCES, RESIDENCIES, SYMPOSIA, TALKS (ORGANIZER):

In Progress	Co-Organizer (with Sauda Smith, Myron Jackson, Marta M. Vega), conference on Yoruba/Lukumi Sacred Arts & Artists, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI and other venues
2023	Panelist, African Art in Motion: The Legacy of Professor Robert Farris Thompson -- Scholarship, Yale University, September 7-8.
2023	Commentator, Exhibition and Performance by Daniel Minter, the Lynden Sculpture Gardens, Milwaukee, WI, June 17-18.
2023	Moderator, Artists Panel with Nyugen Smith and Meghna Singh at Art in the Wake conference, Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland, ME, May 20.
2023/4	Organizer, Class/Workshop, African Inspirations, Diaspora Creations: Arts & Architectures, H.Lavity Stoutt Community College, British Virgin Islands (BVI), February-March
2020	Organizer, two tours of the decorative arts at Blair House led by curator Candace Shireman for CASVA Fellows, February 3 and 18.
2018	Organizer, Whirling Return of the Ancestors exhibition public events (March 1 and March 11) and African Studies Program Symposium on Honoring Ancestors in Africa and Beyond: Arts and Actions, April 6-7, 2018.
2017	Co-organizer and discussant, panel to honor Gautama V. Vajracharya's Contributions to the Arts of South Asia's Monsoon Culture, South Asian Studies Conference, Madison, October 28.
2017	Co-organizer (with Fernanda Villarreal), Roundtable on “Contemporary Art Scene in Lagos & Cotonou,” at the 17th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Arts, Accra, Ghana, August 11.
2016	Lead faculty/host, Arts Institute Artist-in-Residency of Meeta Mastani, Fall semester.
2016	Organized talk by Freddie Mathodi, PhD student from University of Kwazulu-Natal University, South Africa who spoke about women’s arts (clay and dung), November 18.
2016	Co-Organizer (with Prof. Craig Werner), book-tour lecture by authors Ned & Constance Sublette on The American Slave Coast, September 15.
2016	Organizer (with Prof. Fasial Abdu’Allah), Global Curatorial Lecture Series (Bisi Silva and Brooke Anderson), Fall 2016.
2015	Organized talk by Tomas Robaina, Chief Bibliographer at the National Library, Havana-Cuba who spoke about the history of racism in Cuba (collaboration with LACIS-UW- M), September 12.
2014	Organizer, Burdick-Vary Symposium on Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century, .
2013	Co-Organizer (with Thomas Dale and Ann Smart-Martin) of Think Tank on Curatorial Studies, UW-M, April 26-7.
2010	Organizer (with Freida High-Tesfagiorgis and Matthew Rarey) of the museum symposium “Ways of Showing, Ways of Knowing,” Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, .
2008	Organizer, public programs for Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas at the Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison (regatta, book festival events, lecture series by artists, scholars, scientists, films, photographic exhibit, music and dance performances), October--December.
2007	Organizer, Afro-Cuba at the Crossroads: Arts, Culture, History (series of programs--art exhibition, book exhibition, symposium, films, music and dance performances—Fall).
2006	Member, organizing committee, “TADIA Conference and Workshop on the African Diaspora in Asia, International Centre-Goa, India, .
2003-4	Co-Director, Sin Fronteras-Cuba -- collaborative arts/education project involving UW-M, Madison Metropolitan School District, and the Madison Children's Museum.
1997	Proposal author and Symposium organizer, 10th Annual African Diaspora Celebration, UW-Madison.
1995, 1999	Proposal author and Coordinator, Viva Brasiland Sin Fronteras Projects -- collaborative arts/education projects involving UW-M, Madison Metropolitan School District, and the Madison Children's Museum.
1992	Organizer of Symposium and Chair, panel on "Art and Performance," International Symposium on Yoruba Art, Artists, and Aesthetics, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, .
1991	Organizer, Symposium on the Arts in Contemporary Africa, University of Wisconsin-Madison, .

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PAPERS/PANELS:

2023-4	Visiting Professor, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, British Virgin Islands, February/March.
2022	Moderator, conversation with artists Daniel Minter and Eneida Sanches, Center for Contemporary Maine Art, Rockland, ME, October 1.
2022	Discussant, panel on “Reconceptualizing Cultural Heritage,” International Conference on Education and Restitution, Accra, Ghana, September 1.
2020	Chair, Roundtable on Arts and the Senses in Africa and its Diasporas, ACASA Triennial, Chicago, June 18-21. (postponed to 2021)
2019	Discussant, panel on the Restitution of Art/cultural Heritage to Africa, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Williamsburg, VA, November 8
2019	Conversation with Daniel Minter – "Othered: The Malaga Saga," Indigo Art Alliance, Portland, ME, November 2
2019	Panelist discussing the question: “To Whom does Culture Belong?” Humboldt Forum-Berlin, Germany, October 3
2019	Screening of two of my films (BLACKsmiths of Morocco, Celebrating Ogun Ondo) at Musée Quai Branly Jacque Chirac-Paris as part of the opening of Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, November 18-19
2019	Chair, panel on the Restitution of Art/cultural Heritage to Africa, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Williamsburg, VA, November 8
2019	Speaker, panel on Peace Corps experience and the study of African arts, African Studies Association, Boston, November 22
2018	Moderator, conversation between the artists David Driskell and Daniel Minter, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, Maine, July 26
2018	“Trans-Saharan Migrations: BLACKsmiths of Morocco,” presented along with a 10-minute film at Resignifications: Black Mediterranean Conference, Palermo-Sicily, Italy, June 6-10
2017	“Come to your Senses!: Sensiotics and Understandings of Persons, Arts, Cultures, and Histories,” Bard Graduate Center, NY, August 23
2017	“Remembering Marilyn,” paper in honor of Marilyn Houlberg, at the 17th Triennial Symposium on African and African Diaspora Arts, Accra, Ghana, August 12.
2017	“Egungun: Honoring Ancestors among Yoruba People in Africa and Cuba,” paper presented at the Afro-Cuban art exhibitionSin Mascaras and conference in Havana, Cuba, July 26-31.
2017	“Egungun: A Multi-Sensorial Experience,” paper presented at Celebrating Ancestors in the Afro-Atlantic World, CCNY, May 11.
2017	Spoke at Press Lunch at preview/vernissage of Musee Quai Branly-Paris exhibition, L'Afrique des Routes dans l'Histoire, January 30, 2017.
2017	Attended FEZ Gathering -- 2nd Annual International Gathering of Artists in Fez-Morocco on the theme of “Art in the Time of Crisis,” January 13-15.
2016	“Indian Artists of African Descent (Siddis): Their Quilting Cooperative, Challenges and Prospects,” 45th Annual South Asian Conference, UW-Madison, October 21.
2016	“Black Atlantic Masquerades: Egungun Artistry Honoring Ancestors in Nigeria, Benin, and Oyotunji, South Carolina,” Critical Encounters, RISD Museum and Brown University, October 16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65hJmPTwMo
2016	“Sensiotics: The Importance of Sensory Literacy,” International Visual Literacy Association Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 6.
2015	“Come to Your Senses! Sensiotics and Understandings of Art, Culture, and History,”Focus on the Humanities, Center for the Humanities, UW- Madison,(re-scheduled to April 6, 2016).
2015	“Africans in the Indian Ocean World: Past and Present,” Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Workshop Diasporic Circularities in the Indian Ocean World, Qatar, March 22.
2014	“Yoruba Arts and the Senses: A Sensiotics Approach,” presented at the conference Flash of the Spirit: Celebrating 35 Years, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, .
2014	“Planetary Yoruba: Art on the Move,” presented at the Symposium The Arts in Global Africa, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, ,
2014	“Embodied Knowledge: Making Sense of Material Culture and Art in West Africa,” Bard Graduate Center and Chipstone Foundation Workshop entitled History and Material Culture: World Perspectives, .
2014	“Africans, Arts, and Agency in the Portuguese Empire: Bahia-Brazil and Goa-India,” presented at the NYU conference/workshop on How Migration Makes Meaning, Abu Dhabi, March 30-April 2.
2014	Book-Launch lecture on Rowland Abiodun’sYoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art(Cambridge University Press), at Sotheby’s, NYC, March 21.
2014	Discussant for two panels (“African Art and the University Museum” and “The Senses of the Medium” at the 16th Triennnial Conference on African and African Diaspora Arts, Brooklyn Museum of Art, March 19-22.
2014	“African Coiffures: A Body-Mind Art of Consequence,” for the Hair Craft Project, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, .
2013	“Ancestral Resonance: Color, Form, and Movement in the Art of Manuel Mendive,” Frost Museum of Art-FIU, Miami, FL, .
2013	“Embodied Knowledge: Making Sense of Art,” Keynote address – UCLA Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium on “Sense*Ability: Multi-Perceptual Encounters with Art,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, .
2013	Co-Convenor (with Marie Luise Ciminelli), Symposium on Displacement and Diaspora at the Venice Biennale,.
2013	Co-Organizer (with Thomas Dale and Ann Smart-Martin) of Think Tank on Curatorial Studies, UW-M, April 26-7.
2012	Participant, Mapping Modernisms Conference, National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada, May 10.
2012	Chair, panel on African Arts and their Representation in Museums,50/Forward African Studies Symposium, UW-M, April 21.
2011	“Afro-Brazilian Arts and Culture” – invited paper at the Museo-Afro-Brasiliero, Sao Paulo, Brazil [declined]
2011	“Comments on the Ife Terracottas in Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures,” Scholars’ Day, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, November 21.
2011	"Mami Wata as Artists’ Muse in Africa and the African-Atlantic World,” at the International conference Venus as Muse: Figurations of the Creative, Cologne, Germany, January 18-20, 2012 [invited-declined]
2011	“Le scarificazioni come segni d’identità nelle varie realtà africane” [Scarifications as Identity signs in African cultures], Conference on Nella Pelle [Into the Skin: Indentity, Symbols, and History in Permanent Body Marks], Roma, Italy [invited-declined].
2011	“Material Matters: The Art of Sonya Clark,” Milwaukee Museum of Art, April 16.
2011	“Signifyin’ Saints: Arts and Agency in Afro-Brazil,” Richard Greenleaf Colonial Studies Conference on Africans and their Descendants in the Early Modern Ibero-American World, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, April 18-19.
2011	Chair/Discussant, panel on “Striking Iron: The Artistry of Blacksmiths in Africa/Diaspora,” 15th Triennial Symposium on African/Diaspora Arts, UCLA, March 25.
2011	Panel Chair and presenter, “Yoruba Body/Mind Concepts and Understandings of the Arts,” 15th Triennial Symposium on African/Diaspora Arts, UCLA, March 26.
2011	Chair/Discussant, panel on the documentary film “Lamidi Olonade Fakeye: Life of a Master Carver,” 15th Triennial Symposium on African/Diaspora Arts, UCLA, March 26.
2011	“Making Sense of Yoruba Arts,” The Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Ethnicity in Africa: Historical, Comparative and Contemporary Investigations -- Workshop II: The Making of the Yoruba, April 2, University of Michigan.
2011	“Arts, Agency, Identity: Patchwork Quilts of African Indians (Siddis) of Karnataka,” at the The State of African American and African Diaspora Studies Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, January 8.
2011	Chair, Panel on “Representations of Africans and the Peoples of African Descent,” at the The State of African American and African Diaspora Studies Conference at CUNY Graduate Center, January 8.
2011	“Different Diasporas: Africans and Arts in India,” New Directions in African/Diaspora Research Scholars –in-Residence Conference, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY, January 6.
2010	Invited to speak on African water spirit arts, Doul’Art (Salon Urbain de Douala), Cameroon, Dec. 4-11 [declined].
2010	Organizer, tour of the Mami Wata exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, as part of the ASA annual conference.
2010	Organizer (with Freida High-Tesfagiorgis and Matthew Rarey) of the museum symposium “Ways of Showing, Ways of Knowing,” Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, October 7-8.
2010	“Re-Membering Arts and Altars: Interactivity in the Mami Wata Exhibition,” Sainsbury Symposium on Exhibiting Ancient and Modern Art, March 18.
2010	“Making Sense of Art? The Case of the Yoruba of West Africa,” Sainsbury Research Seminar, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March 17.
2009	Participant, Curatorial Conversations Conference, Edenfred, Madison, WI, April 10.
2009	Discussant – Panel on “Performing Africa in New Orleans,” ASA Conference, New Orleans, November 20.
2009	“Spirit Spouse: Art and Gender in the Worship of Mami Wata,” Alfred Z. Solomon Lecture, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, NY, October 28.
2009	Discussant, panel on �The Power of Water,� at the CAA conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 26.
2009	�Ifa Arts of Divination and the Senses,� International Symposium on Yoruba Art: Continuity and Change, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, February 6.
2008	"Film in Multi-Sensorial Education: Flaming Crowns, Cooling Waters-Masquerades of the Ijebu-Yoruba." 51st Annual African Studies Association Conference Teachers' Workshop, Chicago, November 15.
2008	"Traveling Images and Ideas: Hindu Gods and Water Divinities in Africa," South Asia Conference, Madison, October 19.
2008	Workshop participant - "A Conversation on Curatorial Practice and Native North American Art," Sept. 25-27.
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.
2007	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.
2007	“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.
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.
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.

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HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS:

2021-Present	Visiting Scholar, Amherst College
2023-4	Visiting Professor, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, British Virgin Islands, February/March
2022	The Henry John Drewal Post-Doctoral Fellowship established – Department of Art History, UW-Madison.
2022	Visiting Scholar, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, British Virgin Islands, February.
2020	Distinguished Teaching Award, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA)
2020	Symposium “Crossing Oceans and Hemispheres – Honoring the Career of Henry Drewal,” National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian, February 27-28
2020	Emeritus status, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2019	The 2019 Ruth Hetterer Harris Lecture, School of Human Ecology-UW-M, November 13.
2019	The 2019 Margaret Herz Demant Award for African Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, October 27.
2019	Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January/February 2020.
2019	African Studies Program, UW-Madison – Faculty International Travel Grant for work at the Verger Foundation, Salvador, Bahia-Brazil.
2018	My 2004 film Celebrating sacred Twin in Africa selected for the 20th Wisconsin Film Festival.
2017	Creative Arts Award, UW Arts Institute, 2-year funding for making artful documentaries.
2017	NEH Implementation Grant for the international, traveling exhibition (with Head Curator Tom Joyce, and Allen Roberts, Bill Dewey), Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths. Being organized by the Fowler Museum-UCLA.
2017	Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – Grant for Symposium/Exhibition/Performances on “Honoring Ancestors in Africa and Diaspora: Arts &  Actions” to take place at the Design Gallery-SOHE, April 6-8, 2018.
2017	Hilldale Award for Distinguished Scholarship & Service, UW-Madison.
2017	Evjue Foundation grant to bring Oyotunji African Village Egungun masquerades for Symposium/Exhibition/Performances on “Honoring Ancestors in Africa and Diaspora: Arts & Actions” to take place at the Design Gallery-SOHE, April 6-8, 2018.
2016	Invited to serve as expert panelist for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) project “Expressive Cultures of the African Diaspora.”
2016	Evjue Foundation grant to bring global curators Brooke Anderson (Prospect4-New Orleans) and Bisi Silva (CCA-Lagos, Nigeria) to UW-M/Madison for lectures and workshops, September & December.
2016	Two hour interview of Peace Corps experience deposited in the John F. Kennedy Library.
2016	Invited to write "Art History of the Yoruba" for Oxford Bibliographies in Art History (pending).
2016	Senior Fulbright Research Grant, Morocco – six months in 2017.
2015	Bard Graduate Center Senior Fellowship, New York City, Spring 2017.
2015	UW Arts Institute Artist-in-Residence grant for Meeta Sandeep for Fall 2016.
2015	NEH Planning Grant for the international, traveling exhibition (with Head Curator Tom Joyce, and Allen Roberts, Bill Dewey),Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths. Being organized by the Fowler Museum-UCLA.
2015	South Asian Studies Program-UW – Faculty research grant in support of Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, September 2-January 3, 2016.
2015	Brittingham grant to bring Professor Emeritus Arturo Lindsay (Spelman College) to speak about Santeria Aesthetics and Kongo Carnival in Panama (Spring semester 2016).
2015	Cyril Nave Visiting Scholar Program/LACIS grant to bring Tomas Fernandez Robaina, Chief Librarian, National Library, Havana-Cuba to speak at UW, September 15.
2015	Evjue Foundation grant to bring Meeta Sandeep (design & craft development expert) to UW-M & Madison community from India, September-October.
2015	Brittingham grant to bring Meeta Sandeep (design & craft development expert) to UW-M from India, September-October.
2015	Invited to give a paper on “African Diasporas in the Indian Ocean: Past and Present,” Faculty Workshop, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University-Qatar, March 21-24.
2015	Invited to give a paper at the “Bearden in Global Context” symposium, Columbia University, February 21 (declined).
2014	UW Hilldale Distinguished Lecturer Grant (with Gail Geiger & Tom Dale) to bring Holland Cotter, NYTimes Art Critic.
2014	Honorable Instructor award, Chadbourne Residence, UW-Madison.
2014	Consultant for the African Art Collection, Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
2014	Senior Research Fulbright grant to Morocco (Alternate – final decision spring/summer 2015).
2014	Invited to give a Bettman lecture at Columbia University in spring 2015 (postponed).
2014	Invited participant in the NYU conference/workshop entitled “How Migration Makes Meaning: Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds,” Abu Dhabi, March 29-April 2.
2014	Recipient of the Leadership Award (Lifetime Achievement) from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association at the 16thTriennial Conference at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, March 20.
2013	International Studies, UW-Madison – Supplementary Funds for Burdick-Vary Symposium on “Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21stCentury,” to take place October 3, 2014.
2013	Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – Funds for Burdick-Varey Symposium on “Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century,” to take place .
2013	Keynote speaker – UCLA Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium on “Sense*Ability: Multi-Perceptual Encounters with Art,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, .
2013	Appointed to the National Advisory Board, National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian Institution (3-year term).
2013	Invited faculty for Getty-funded project “Expanding Art History: Teaching Non-European Art at UNICAMP” (University of Campinas, Brazil).
2013	UW-Madison, African Studies Program-Faculty Research Grant – Egungun arts in Nigeria/Benin.
2013	Invited to serve as External Reviewer of curriculum for the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
2012	The Graduate School, UW-Madison -- Faculty Research Grant (PA and travel) to work on “Collaborative Creativity: Egungun Masquerades among the Yoruba.”
2012	Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – Guests artists as part of Artist-in-Residence Program.
2012	The Graduate School, UW-M – Faculty Travel Grant to participate in the Venice Biennale, June 2013.
2012	Fulbright Specialist Program (for Indonesia and Pakistan).
2012	Arts Institute, UW-M, Artist-in-Residence Grant for Faisal Abdu’Allah, Spring
2011	The Graduate School, UW-Madison -- Faculty Research Grant (PA) to work on the history of Siddi patchwork quilts in India.
2011	Brittingham Grant, UW-Madison – Visit of London-based artist Faisal Abduallah.
2011	Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – “Look Look, Listen Listen,” 10-day program with Ghanaian artists Atta Kwami, Pamela Clarkson, and Koo Nimo.
2010	Senior Fellow (4-year term), the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison.
2010	Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – “Ways of Showing, Ways of Knowing,” Symposium on exhibiting African art in a museum, October 7-8, 2010
2009	Woodrow Wilson Foundation – Career Enhancement Conference (Mentor for Nancy Marie Mithlo), Princeton University, October 14-16.
2009	Digital Collections Grant, Memorial Library-UW-Madison [African Diaspora arts – 5,000 slides]
2009	The Graduate School, UW-Madison -- Faculty Research Grant to prepare a book on “The Senses in Understanding of African Art.”
2009	Robert & Avis Burke Lecturer, Art History, Indiana University, Nov. 6
2009	Alfred Z. Solomon Residency, Tang Museum of Art, Skidmore College, October 27-31.
2009	Senior Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution (NMAfA), summers 2010/11.
2009	Sainsbury Research Unit Fellowship, University of E. Anglia, Norwich, England – Spring, 2010
2008	Digital Collections Grant, Memorial Library, UW-Madison.
2008	Donnelly Foundation Grant for African/American art exhibit, Avery Center, Charleston, SC (partial)
2008	Morgridge Center, UW-Madison – Service-Learning special needs grant.
2008	Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – Porgramming for Mami Wata exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art, Fall.
2008	Aquatic Sciences Center-UW-Madison – Lecture series “Water Matters” for Mami Wata exhibit.
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.
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")
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.

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PUBLIC LECTURES:

2024	Royal Yoruba Beaded Tunic, » Art Chat at the Smith College Museum of Art, September 20
2023	Guest speaker in conversation with Adama Delphine Fawundu and C.D. Dawson on her exhibition In the Spirit of Àṣẹ, the Newark Museum of Art, November 2.
2023	Guest speaker in conversation with Kymberly S. Newberry, Mt. Holyoke College Museum of Art, “The Tragedies of History, and the Triumphs of Art,” October 4.
2023	Guest speaker, Opening of art exhibitions by Daniel Minter and Eneida Sanches, Lynden Sculpture Gardens, Milwaukee, WI, June 18
2023	Guest speaker, City Gallery, Charleston, SC – Celebrating Black Mermaids: From Africa to America exhibition.
2023	Guest speaker, Iowa State University Museum of Art (Joyce J. Scott exhibit Messages) (Zoom).
2022	Broadcast conversation with Dr. Sauda Smith, H. Lavity Stout Community College, British Virgin Islands.
2021	"The History, Arts, and Culture of Siddis (Africans) in India," A Zoom lecture (with Sarah K. Khan and Pashington Obeng) for Indigo Arts Alliance and the Cove Street Arts gallery, Portland, ME, March 11.
2020	Guest speakers for online classes at Columbia University (CDDawson) and UW-Madison (Laurie Beth Clark and Fernanda Villarroel)
2020	Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, DC.
2019	Margaret Herz Demant Lecture, Detroit Institute of Arts.
2019	Lecture/Performance at danceGATHERING 2019, Lagos-Nigeria.
2019	Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos-Nigeria.
2018	Ruth Davis Design Gallery – Friends of SoHE-UW-Madsion.
2018	Amherst College, MA
2017	UW-Madison (African Studies Program, and Agon-Research in the Arts)
2017	St. Louis Art Museum
2017	Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Habana, Cuba.
2017	City College, NY.
2017	Musee Quai Branly, Paris.
2016	University of New Mexico-Albuquerque
2015	Center for South Asia, UW-Madison
2015	African American Museum in Philadephia
2015	School of Foreign Service-Georgetown, Qatar
2014	Opening Gala, Prospect3, New Orleans, LA
2014	Burdick-Vary Symposium (Organizer & Moderator)
2014	Center for Visual Cultures-UW-Madison
2014	Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, NY
2013	Fowler Museum-UCLA
2013	Friends of African Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2013	UW-M, “Evolving Directions in Academic Research and Resources,” Memorial Library
2013	UW-M, Conference on the Public Humanities, Center for the Humanities
2013	Kumasi National University of Science and Technology, Ghana
2012	Princeton University, NJ
2012	Spelman College, GA
2012	James Madison University, VA
2012	UT-Austin, TX
2011	Wabash College, IN
2011	Indianapolis Museum of Art
2011	Pennsylvania State University (3)
2011	Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
2011	New York University
2011	Detroit Institute of Arts
2011	Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond
2011	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY. (3)
2010	Michigan State University
2010	Stanford University (2)
2010	UC-Santa Barbara
2010	British Museum, London
2009	Indiana University, IN
2009	Skidmore College, NY
2009	St. Lawrence University, NY
2009	Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain
2009	National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian Institution
2009	University of Maryland, College Park
2009	University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2009	VCU-African/African American Religions class
2008	Several lectures on Mami Wata, Chazen Museum of Art
2008	Fowler Museum-UCLA-teachers workshop
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
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
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.

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MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Indigo Arts Alliance (Portland-Maine) – member, Advisory Board

West African Research Association (WARA) – Board Member

National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian Institution (National Advisory Board (second 3-year term)

BLAC Foundation (Board of Trustees Member)

College Art Association

African Studies Association

Arts Council of the African Studies Association (founding member, Board of Directors)

Society for Africanist Archeology

West African Research Association

American Society for Ethno-history

Midwest Art History Society

The African Diaspora in Asia (Network) - TADIA

Wisconsin Humanities Council (Board Member)

The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters

Congress on Research in Dance

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COURSES:

At H, Lavitty Stout Community College, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (2022-2024)     Workshop for Visual Artists     Class/Workshop – African Inspirations, Diaspora Creations: Arts and Architectures

At Amherst College (March-May 2023)     Survey of African Art & Myth, Ritual & Iconography in West Africa

Exhibition Course 506 – Planning and mounting Egungun exhibit at Design Gallery, UW-Madison

Curatorial Studies Colloquium – Fall 2014/Spring 2016 (coordinator/instructor)

FauHaus: Bodies, Minds, Senses and the Arts (with UW Arts Institute Artist-in=Residence Faisal Abdu’Allah).

Honors Undergraduate Seminar – Ways of Showing, Ways of Knowing: Exhibiting African Arts

First Year Interest Group (FIG) seminar – Exhibiting Arts, Culture and History in a Museum

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

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LANGUAGES:

French (fluent);

Yoruba (good);

Portuguese (good);

Spanish (good).

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OTHER:

2021	Consultant, NEH and NEA grants for an Antebellum House Museum exhibition of African-American blacksmiths, New Orleans, LA
2020	Consultant, NEH grant application for an Antebellum House Museum, NOLA
2020	Reviewer, candidates for tenured position in African Diaspora religions, Harvard Divinity School
2020	Guest speaker for online classes: UW-M Visual Culture (3/26; 4/15); Columbia U African Diaspora Arts & Cultures (4/21); UW-M MA defense (4/7)
2020	Reviewer, Modern Endangered Archives Program, UCLA Libraries (African Studies Institute-University of Ibadan, Nigeria – Audiovisual Collections)
2018-2020	Advisory Circle for Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland, ME
1991-2019	Donations of books, films, research materials to universities in Africa and the Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives-National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.
1991-2019	As Adjunct Curator of African Art at the Chazen Museum of Art, I have added 176 works to the collection.
2018	Consultant to African art Curator, Musée des Confluences, Lyons, France.
2018	Consultant to Egungun exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (opening January 2019).
2015-8	Consultant for University of Nebraska – Lincoln—Digital Commons - Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings -- EXPLORING ORIGINS: THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF TWO YORUBA MASQUERADE COSTUMES AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART -- Rebecca Summerour
2017	External examiner for the PhD thesis of Mathodi Motsamayi, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg in South Africa.
2016	See article about our (Drewal & Khan) work on Siddi quilts written by Makale Faber Cullen, “Kawandi: Quilts of Karnataka,” in Uppercase, #30, Summer, pp.100-105.
2016	Oral History (Peace Corps) donated to the John F. Kennedy Library-National Archives.
1974-present	Field photographs and films in many museum installations of African art (de Young-San Francisco, Fowler Museum-UCLA, St. Louis Art Museum, High Museum-Atlanta, Cleveland Museum of Art, Newark Museum, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Seattle Art Museum, National Museum of African Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museo del Mon-Barcelona, Quai Branly-Paris, etc.)
2013	Reviewer for the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (CNRS-Paris, France)
2013	Curriculum advisor, Art Department, Kumasi National University of Science and Technology, Ghana
2007-present	Consultant to various art museums (de Young, Honolulu, Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Milwaukee, etc.) on their African art collections.
2007-present	Undergraduate Research Mentor, UW-M.
1980-present	Field photos in more than 300 publications.
1985-present	Donations of books, field research data, and art to archives, libraries and museums: African and African Diaspora slides (19,000) and B&W negatives (46,000) to the Eliot Elisofon Photo Archive-National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian Institution; photographs (200) to the Robert Goldwater Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; slides (900) of African Diaspora Images to the Digital Collections, UW-Madison; books (1280), serials (112) and films (6) to the Kohler Art Library, UW-Madison; African art to the Fowler Museum-UCLA and the Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison.
2011	Filmed interviews on various African art topics, Indianapolis Museum of Art (http://www.artbabble.org)
2011	NEH advisor, African art re-installation project, Baltimore Museum of Art.
2010-11	Consultant for international exhibition on “Global Mermaids and the film “Mermaids: The Documentary” (by Nicole Cattell).
2008	Coordinator, North America –Festival Internacional de Tradiciones AfroAmericanas (FITA), Caracas, Venezuela.
2007	Artist (with Brenda Baker) of site-specific artwork called “Home Divided” as part of International Forest Art project of the Arts Institute-UW and visiting artist Ute Ritschel – Raven Trail, National Park, Minocqua,WI.
2007	Arranged donation and catalogued collection of 500 slides of Roger Bisson, Catholic missionary in West Africa (Benin, Togo, Burkina, Mali -- 1950s-1980s).
2004-present	Artist, unique furniture and homes for birds (Avian Architecture Series)
2004	Consultant -- NEH-funded permanent exhibitions of African art at the Denver Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, and the Detroit Institute of Art.
2004	Consultant -- Musee Dapper and Musee du Quai Branly in Paris – assisting with preparations for an Afro- Brazilian art exhibition (Dapper) and new permanent installation of African art (Branly).
2000-present	External examiner – PhD candidates in South Africa, UK, and France.
1985-present	Member, Editorial Board of African Arts
1970-present	Field Research – Africa/African Diaspora arts – Nigeria (1970-1, 1973, 1975, 1977-78, 1982, 1986, 2019), Benin (1970-71, 1973, 2004-5, 2010), Togo (1975, 2004-5, 2010), Ghana (1967, 1975, 2010, 2012-13), Cote d’Ivoire (1993), Senegal (1995), Mali/Burkina Faso (2011-12), Morocco (1997; 2017), South Africa (1997, 2005), Uganda (1969), Brazil (1974, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1997-8, 2000), Mexico (1995, 2008, 2009), Cuba (1999, 2000, 2015), Puerto Rico (2002, 2009), Panama (2007), Venezuela (2007, 2008), Turkey (1996, 2009, 2012, 2015), Macao (2005), Pakistan (2004), and India (2001, 2004, 2006, 2015), USA (2014).
1970-2019	Archival/Museum Research – UK (1971, 1980, 1995, 2009); France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland (1980, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2012); India (2001, 2004-5, 2006).
1980-present	Publications Referee – Press of the University of Florida; University of Chicago Press; Routledge; Prentiss Hall; University of Washington Press; University of Colorado Press; University of North Carolina Press; Indiana University Press; University of Illinois Press; Lexington Press; Temple University Press; Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture; Folklore (Warburg Institute, London, UK)
2001-2002	Curatorial instructor for "Revealing Forms: African Art in the Elvehjem Museum Collection."
2000-2002	Consultant – Milwaukee Museum of Art.
1992	Coordinator/author of a major proposal to establish a Fund for African Archaeology (pending).
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), and Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.
1985-1993	Curator and Consultant on African art for the Cleveland Museum of Art; Neuberger Museum of Art;  Toledo Museum of Art.
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.

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