CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Henry John Drewal

ADDRESS (WORK): Department of Art HistoryChazen Museum of Art800 University AvenueUniversity of WisconsinMadison, WI 53706(608) 263-9362/263-2340Email: hjdrewal@wisc.eduWebsite: www.henrydrewal.com

(HOME): 316 Glen Thistle CourtMadison, WI 53705(608) 334-2258

EDUCATION:

1973. Ph.D., Columbia University, N.Y.1969. Certificate of African Studies (M.A.), Institute of African Studies, Columbia University1968. M.A., Columbia University1964. B.A., Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (TEACHING):

1990-present. Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, joint appointment with the Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1982-1990. Professor, Art Department, Cleveland State University.1988 (Jan.-June). Visiting Professor, Art History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara.1986 (Jan.-June). Visiting Professor, Art History, SUNY at Purchase, New York.1982-1985. Professor and Chairperson, Art Department, Cleveland State University.1977-82. Associate Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University.1973-77. Assistant Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University.

PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, CATALOGS, EDITED VOLUMES):

In Preparation. Co-Editor (with Allen Roberts), Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths. LA: Fowler Museum of UCLA and University of Washington Press. [expected 2018]

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 Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 681 pp. [46 contributors, plus DVD compiled by Andy Dayton] [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. 16 pp.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), The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts. Smithsonian Institution Press with the support of the Societé Suisse d'Études Africaines and the Rietberg Museum, Switzerland. 275 pp.

1991. Yoruba Art and Aesthetics (with Rowland Abiodun and John Pemberton III). Zurich: Rietberg Museum. 103 pp.

1989. Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (with John Pemberton III and Rowland Abiodun). New York: Alfred Knopf and The Center for African Art. 256 pp.

1989. Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent (with David Driskell). Los Angeles: The California Afro-American Museum. 104 pp.

1989. African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 25 pp.1988. Guest Editor with Essay. Object and Intellect: Interpretations of Meaning in African Art. Special issue of

Art Journal, 47, 2, Summer. 85 pp.1988. Shapes of the Mind: African Art from Long Island Collections. Hempstead, New York: Hofstra University.

31 pp.1984. Editor with Introduction. Dimensions in Black Art -- Addendum. Cleveland: Afro-American Cultural

Center, Cleveland State University. 12 pp.1983. Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba (with Margaret Thompson Drewal). Bloomington:

Indiana University Press. 352 pp. [Finalist for the 1983 M. J. Herskovits Award] [2nd Edition, 1990.]1980. African Artistry: Technique and Aesthetics in Yoruba Sculpture. Atlanta: The High Museum of Art. 100

pp.1978. Guest Editor with Introduction. African Arts, Special Issue entitled "The Arts of Egungun among Yoruba

Peoples," XI, 3, April.1977. Traditional Art of the Nigerian Peoples: The Ratner Collection. Washington, D.C.: Museum of African

Art. 58 pp.1976. Editor with Introduction. African Fabrics. Cleveland: Cleveland State University. 15 pp. with a slide set,

notes, and bibliography.1975. Editor with Introduction. Dimensions in Black Art: African, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-American Art at CSU.

Cleveland: Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University. Catalog which accompanies permanent collection. 56 pp.

1975. Editor with Introduction. Visions of Africa: An Exhibition of Prints and Textiles by Nigerian Artists. Cleveland: Cleveland State University. 15 pp.

PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES):

In Preparation. “The Africans (Siddis) of India: Histories, Cultures, and Arts,” Kwasi Konadu, ed., The Worlds of Slavery: Global African Perspectives (submitted to University of Rochester Press).

In Press. “Sensiotics: Senses in Understandings of Material Culture, History, and the Arts,” Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture. Oxford University Press. [expected 2017, 8000 words]

In Press. “Incarner le savoir: le rôle des sens dans la compréhension de l’art, de la culture et de l’histoire,  » [For anthopology journal, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris, France.]

In Press. Essay and eight catalogue entries for African Masterpieces at the Newark Museum [expected in 2017].

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.

2017. “Spirit in the Art of Carlos Luna,” Catalogue essay for the Cuban artist Carlos Luna: The Green Machine.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. http://risdmuseum.org/manual/443_eg_ng_n_mysteries_concealed_in_magical_cloth

[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 PerformanceOlupona, 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. “Mami Wata -- Sacred African Water Spirit,” Mermaids, 25, pp. 36-37. 2013. “Senses and Form-Words: Exploring Yoruba Art,” Refined Eye, Passionate Heart: African Art

from the Leslie Sacks Collection. Los Angeles: SKIRA, pp. 130-177.2013. “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. [lead article]

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, p. 26.

2013. “Ocean Portfolio/Mami Wata: Art for Water Spirits in Africa,” World Ocean Journal, Volume 1, Inaugural Issue, pp. 26-31.

2013. “Foreword” – Vodun, Voodoo, Vodou: Spirits (book and film) by Henning Christoph. Leipzig, Germany, pp. 4-7.

2013. “India Bibliography,” (with Beheroze Shroff and Alicia Cannizzio), African Arts, 46, 1, Spring, pp. 26-29.

2013. “Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,” African Arts, 46, 1, Spring, pp. cover, 6-17.

2012. Foreword, catalogue for the Return of ONA exhibition, Watersworth Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, October 20-November 5, 2012.

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.

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.

2011-12. Images of the African Diaspora,” UW Digital Collections Center (900 images and captions) (http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AfricanStudies.Diaspora).

2011. “Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Egungun Masquerades among the Yoruba,” in Homegoings, Regennia Williams, ed. NJ: Africa World Press, pp.175-206.

2011. Five catalogue entries, film, and photographs of Yoruba objects and performances, Ancestors of Congo Square, William Fagaley, ed. (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art and Scala Publishers), pp. 164, 166, 168, 178, 180, 184, 186, 192, 196, 198, 200.

2011. “The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World,” in Africana Heritage, NYPL, Volume 11, 2, pp. 6-7.2010. “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. “African Art and the Senses,” www.sensorystudies.com (condensed version of my 2005 First Word article “Senses in Understandings of Art” in African Arts).

2010. “Patchwork Quilts of Africans (Siddis) of India,” in The Global Africa Project (NY/Munich: Prestel & Museum of Arts and Design), pp. 179, 240.

2010. “Stitching History: Siddi Patchwork Quilts,” Hand/Eye Magazine, July 15. [revised version of 2005 brochure]

2010. “Evocative Form,” 10,000 Years of Beauty-Classical Age/Confrontations (Paris: Editions-Babylone), pp. 128-131. [Chinese edition to be published in 2011]

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: Historian of Gelede,” ejournal (www.universityofafricanart.com) 2008. "Arts and Agency: Patchwork Quilts and Quilting Cooperative of Siddis of Northern Karnataka,

India," in TADIA: The African Diaspora in 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,” African Arts, 4, 2, Summer 2008, pp.60-83.

2006. “Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and other Water Spirits in Africa,” (with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk) in Music of the Sirens, Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 294-316.

2006. “La Encantadora de Serpientes se Convierte en Mami Wata en Africa,” NERTA 9 – Literaturas Exoticas (La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands), pp. 20-22.

2005. “Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,” brochure accompanying exhibition in the Design Gallery, UW-Madison, August 26-September 25, 2pp.

2005. “Senses in Understandings of Art,” First Word, African Arts, 38, 2, Summer, pp.1, 4, 6, 88, 96.2005. “Signs of Time, Shapes of Thought: The Contributions of Art History and Visual Culture to Historical

Methods in Africa,” in Writing African History: Methods and Sources, John E. Phillips, ed. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, pp.329-347.

2005. “About,” Foreword for Kiran Kamal Prasad, In Search of an Identity: An Ethnographic Study of the Siddis in Karnataka (Bangalore: Jana Jagrati Prakashana), p.vii.

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 (New Delhi: Rainbow Publishers), 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. 10-17.2000. “Memory and Agency: Bantu and Yoruba Arts in Brazilian Culture,” in Diaspora and Visual Culture, ed.

N. Mirzoeff (London: Routledge), pp. 241-253.1999. "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. [Reprinted in The Afro-Brazilian Mind, 2007]

1999. “Cultura Visual-Conceitos,” Cultura Visual (EBA-Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), 1, 1, pp. 19-20.

1998. "Costume in African Traditions," International Encyclopedia of Dance. Vol 2. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, pp. 209-213.

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. Entries on eight Afro-Brazilian and African artists in St. James Guide to Black Artists, Thomas Riggs, ed. Detroit: St. James Press.

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 and Senses in Understandings of Art," in Visions of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of

African Art at UCLA. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, pp. 64-79. 1993. "L'Art d'Ile-Ife: Sources et Significations du Realisme," Arts d’Afrique Noire, (Paris), Automne, pp. 41-51.1993. "Image and Indeterminacy: The Significances of Elephants and Ivory among the Yoruba,": in D. Ross, ed.

Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, pp. 186-207.

1992. "Contested Realities: Inventions of Art and Authenticity," African Arts, 25, 4, pp. 24-28.1991. "Head of a King," and "Mother and Child," in M. Gibbons and J.Zuppan, eds. Interpretations. Cleveland:

The Cleveland Museum of Art, pp. 41-42.1991. "Headdress of a Maiden," and "Female Mask," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 78, 3, June,

pp. 113-114.1991. "September Artwork of the Month" [4 African objects], Artscene, vol. 7, no. 4, September/October, 1p.1990. "Women in Yoruba Art," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday, October 28, 1990, pp. lC-4C.1990. "African Art Studies Today," in E. Lifschitz, ed. African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 29-62.1990. "Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self," (Abstract) in Material Culture in Africa,

proceedings of the International Conference held at Bellagio, Italy, May 19-23, 1988, pp. 69-71.1989. "Gelede mask of a Shango Devotee," catalog entry for an exhibition at the Museum fur Volkerkunde,

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 1989.1989. "The Meaning of Oshugbo Art: A Reappraisal," in B. Engelbrecht and B. Gardi, eds. Man does not go

Naked: Textilien und Handwerk aus Afrikanishen und Anderen Landern, pp. 151-174. Volume 29, Basler Beitrage zur Ethnologie. (Invited contribution to a work honoring Renee Boser-Sarivaxiavanis)

1989. "Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (Exhibition Preview)," (with John Pemberton and Rowland Abiodun), African Arts, 23, 1, pp. 68-77, 104.

1989. "Art or Accident: Yoruba Body Artists and Their Deity Ogun," in S. Barnes, ed. Africa’s Ogun: Old World and New. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 235-260.

1988. "Interpretation, Invention, and Re-presentation in the Worship of Mami Wata," Journal of Folklore Research, 25, nos. 1/2, pp. 101-139. (Reprinted in R. Stone, ed. Performance in Contemporary African Arts. Bloomington: African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1988, pp. 101-139.)

1988. "Western Ijo Janus Sculpture," catalog entry for an exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland, June 1988.1988. "Beauty and Being: Aesthetics and Ontology in Yoruba Body Art," in A. Rubin, ed. Marks of Civilization.

Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, pp. 83-96.1988. "Performing the Other: Mami Wata Worship in West Africa," in The Drama Review, T118, pp. 160-185.1988. "Ijebu Yoruba water spirit headdress called igodo," in W. Schmalenbach, ed. Africanische Kunst aus 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 5th edition]

PUBLICATIONS (REVIEWS):

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 Volkekunde, Munich. Exhibition reviewed for

African Arts, XXI, 1, pp. 70-71.1977. Errington, F. K. Karavar: Masks and Power in a Melanesian Ritual. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,

1974. Reviewed for International Journal of Comparative Sociology, XVIII, 3-4, pp. 304-305.1977. Walker, R. African Women/African Art. N.Y.: African-American Institute, 1976. Reviewed for AFRICAN

ARTS, X, 2, Winter, pp. 81-82.1974. Gleason, J. A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba. N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, 1973. Reviewed for

African Arts, VII, 3, Spring, pp. 85-86.

FILMS/VIDEOS:

In progress. Omolekan: Master Weaver of the Ohori-Yoruba. Benin (R.P.B.), 16mm, 10 min., color.In progress. Ondo: Spiritual Communication and Possession in West Africa. Benin (R.P.B.), 16mm, 25 min., color,

sound, commentary.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, and the USA.2017. “Africa’s Vibrant Arts: Past and Present,” hour-long interview on University Place, Wisconsin Public

Telivision, May (aired in August – on WPT site). [see my website: www.henrydrewal.com ]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). (see website for excerpt)

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), UW Arts Institute website.

2013. Egungun Masqueraders Honoring Twins. A 3-minute film for the Fowler Museum-UCLA 50th Anniversary, Fall.

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 exhibit Ancestors of Congo

Square. 2008. Flaming Crowns, Cooling Waters: Masquerades of the Ijebu-Yoruba. A 22-minute film (DVD) with

narration and picture gallery. (see website for excerpt)2006. Six research film excerpts incorporated in the permanent exhibition of African art at Musee du

Quai Branly, Paris (Récit artistes Tidjani Agona; Yoruba Performance, Nigeria-Dance after a little girl initiation 3'52 to 4'40, Yoruba Performance, Yoruba, Nigeria, Imewuro Ijebu, 27 août 1986 06'30 to 7'29 Yoruba, Nigeria, 1989; Sortie publique de deux masques gelede; Récit masques "Marcel,” Sculpteur de masque Nago).

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 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 film (DVD) with narration and accompanying notes. (see website for excerpt)

1992. Yoruba Ritual. A 30-minute companion video for Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency a book by Margaret Thompson Drewal (Indiana University Press, 1992).

1992. Efe/Gelede Ceremonies among the Western Yoruba. Benin (R.P.B.) and Nigeria, 29 minute film (DVD), color, sound, written commentary. (see website for excerpt)

1990. African Masking. A 25-minute film (DVD) of masking performances among several African peoples to accompany new permanent collection installation, The Cleveland Museum of Art.

1990. Yoruba Performance. A 25-minute film (DVD) with narration to accompany the traveling exhibition Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought. (see website for excerpt)

1990. The World Began at Ile-Ife. An 18-minute video (VHS) with narration to accompany the exhibition Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and 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 Artistry exhibition).

1970. Living Space: A Study of an Artist’s Family Living in a Loft. New York, Super 8, 25 min., color, sound, written commentary.

1969. Mardi Gras. New Orleans, Super 8, 16 min., color, sound.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CURATORIAL):

In progress. Curator, Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egungun Arts of the Yoruba, exhibiton/symposium & performance at the Design Gallery-SOHE, UW-Madison, January 23-April 8, 2018.

In progress. Consultant for Conjuring Collage: African Diaspora in the Art of Romare Bearden, an internationally traveling exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art-New Orleans, curated by Prof. Robert O’Meally, Columbia University.

In progress. 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 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. 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). 2016. Co-Curator (with Bolaji Campbell), Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egungun Arts of the Yoruba, Brown

University and RISD Museum, July 15, 2016 – January 7, 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.2013-14. Curator, Double Fortune, Double Trouble: Art for Twins among the Yoruba, Fowler Museum-UCLA, Fall-

Winter 2013-14.2013. Brought the SITES Romare Bearden: Black Odyssey (curated by Robert O’Mealley) to the Chazen Museum

of Art, UW-Madison and served on the Advisory Committee for public programs. 2013. Co-Curator (with Faisal Abdu’Allah), 22 Body-Minds in 1 Haus, Chazen Museum of Art, April 24-May 6

and performance at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, May 3.2011. Co-Curator (with Sarah K. Khan), Tasting Cultures: The Arts of Latino Foodways, United Community

Center, Milwaukee, WI, March 4-July 19. 2011. Co-Curator (with Sarah K. Khan), Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India, [full

exhibit of 32 quilts] Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, July 9-September 18. 2011. Curator, Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India, [a selection of 16 quilts]

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY, February 1-June 30. (a traveling exhibition – see www.henrydrewal.com).

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 www.henrydrewal.com).

2009. Curator, Joyful Blues: Yoruba Indigo Dyed Textile Arts (Adire) (a traveling exhibition– see www.henrydrewal.com)

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.

2009. Curatorial Advisor, Chazen niche gallery exhibition curated by Marguerite Heckscher – summer/fall 2009.2008. 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, Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India, Design Gallery, SOHE, UW-

Madison, August-September.2005. Curator, Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans in India, Saint Mary’s Hall, San Antonio, Texas,

February. 2003-4. Curatorial Advisor for Nichole Bridges, curator, Perspectives: African Art 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.1989. Local Curator, Noble Ancestors: Images from Africa, The Cleveland Museum of Art.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. Curator, 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.

CONFERENCES, RESIDENCIES, SYMPOSIA, TALKS (ORGANIZER):

In progress. Organizer, UW-M African Studies Program Symposium on “Honoring Ancestors in Africa: Arts and Actions,” April 6-7, 2018.

2017. Co-organizer and discussant, panel to honor Gautama V. Vajracharya's Contributions to the Arts of SouthAsia's Monsoon Culture, South Asian Studies Conference, Madison, October 28. /VIDEO

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, October 3.2013. Lead faculty & co-instructor of Fauhaus, Arts Institute Artist-in-Residency of Faisal Abdu’Allah,

Spring 2013. 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, October 7-8.2008. 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, bookexhibition, 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, January 9-14.

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 Brasil and 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, January 16-19.1991. Organizer, Symposium on the Arts in Contemporary Africa, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 3-4.

PAPERS/PANELS:

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 exhibition Sin 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.

2016. “Come to Your Senses! Sensiotics and Understandings of Art, Culture, and History,” Focus on the Humanities, Center for the Humanities, UW-Madison, April 6, 2016. [https://mediaspace.wisc.edu/media/Henry+Drewal+-+Sensiotics+-+April+06%2C+2016+-+Madison%2C+WI/1_4qrswlmv]

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, December 11-12.

2014. “Planetary Yoruba: Art on the Move,” presented at the Symposium The Arts in Global Africa, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, November 15,

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, May 9-10.

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’s Yoruba 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, March 6.

2014. “Signifyin’ Saints: Arts and Agency in Afro-Brazil,” UC-Santa Cruz, February 5.2013. “Ancestral Resonance: Color, Form, and Movement in the Art of Manuel Mendive,” Frost Museum of Art-

FIU, Miami, FL, November 20.2013. “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, October 26.

2013. Co-Convenor (with Marie Luise Ciminelli), Symposium on Displacement and Diaspora at the

Venice Biennale, May 30.2013. Co-Organizer (with Thomas Dale and Ann Smart-Martin) of Think Tank on Curatorial Studies,

UW-M, April 26-7.2012. Summary Discussant, Kevin Carroll Conference on African Christian Art, Dromantine Conference

Centre, No. Ireland, UK, October 5-7 [invited-declined]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

Internacional 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. “The Odyssey of an Image: Circus Snake Charmer becomes African Water Goddess!” Chazen

Museum of Art, UW-Madison, May 1.2008. “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.

2008. “Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Traveling Images and Ideas in the African Atlantic,” Knowledge and Empire Conference, Pyle Center, UW-Madison, March 1.

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 50 th 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. Chair, panel on “African Descendants (Siddis) in/of India: Creating Identities and Cultures in an Alien Homeland,” 35th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 21.

2006. Chair, panel at Diaspora and the Disciplines Conference, Pyle Center, UW-Madison, March 24.2006. “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,” 30 th 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 13.1991. 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 StateUniversity, 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.

HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS:

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, January to May 2017.2016. Bard Graduate Center Senior Fellowship, New York City, Summer 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. UNESCO – “The Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage” is including my Siddi family (India) photograph.

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).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. Invited to become an Editorial Board member, the semi-annual refereed journal American Studies:

Eurasian Perspectives (JASEP). [declined]2014. Recipient of the Leadership Award (Lifetime Achievement) from the Arts Council of the African Studies

Association at the 16th Triennial 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 21st Century,” to take place October 3, 2014. 2013. Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – Funds for Burdick-Vary Symposium on “Embodied Knowledge:

Sensory Studies in the 21st Century,” to take place October 3, 2014.2013. Keynote speaker – UCLA Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium on “Sense*Ability: Multi-

Perceptual Encounters with Art,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, October 26.2013. 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 2013.2011. 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 Abdu’Allah.2011. Anonymous Fund, UW-Madison – “Look Look, Listen Listen,” 10-day program with Ghanaian artists Atta

Kwami, Pamela Clarkson, and Koo Nimo. 2011. Digital Collections Grant (#2), Memorial Library-UW-Madison [slides of African Diaspora arts).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 (slides of African Diaspora arts).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 – Programs 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 (postponed to 2008).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. The Graduate School, UW-Madison -- Faculty Research Grant to produce documentary films to accompany

publications on African and African Diaspora arts, 1970-2006.2006. NEH Implementation Grant for Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African-Atlantic

World. Fowler Museum of UCLA. 2006. Resident Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center2005. 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 Grant2002. 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 Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe exhibition).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 Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba

Universe exhibition.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. (declined)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: 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.1966-67. International House - NYC, Residence Fellowship.

PUBLIC LECTURES:

2017. St. Louis Art Museum. 2017. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Habana, Cuba.2017. City College, NY2017. Musee Quai Branly, Paris2016. University of New Mexico-Albuquerque2015. Center for South Asia, UW-Madison2015. African American Museum in Philadelphia2015. School of Foreign Service-Georgetown, Qatar 2014. Opening Gala, Prospect3, New Orleans, LA2014. Burdick-Vary Symposium (Organizer & Moderator)2014. Center for Visual Cultures-UW-Madison2013. Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, NY 2013. Fowler Museum-UCLA2013. Friends of African Art, Santa Barbara, CA2013. UW-M, “Evolving Directions in Academic Research and Resources,” Memorial Library2013. UW-M, Conference on the Public Humanities, Center for the Humanities2013. Kumasi National University of Science and Technology, Ghana2012. Princeton University, NJ2012. Spelman College, GA2012. James Madison University, VA2012. UT-Austin, TX2011. Wabash College, IN2011. Indianapolis Museum of Art2011. Pennsylvania State University (3)2011. Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco2011. New York University2011. Detroit Institute of Arts2011. Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond 2011. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY. (3)2010. Michigan State University2010. Stanford University (2)2010. UC-Santa Barbara2010. British Museum, London2009. Indiana University, IN2009. Skidmore College, NY.2009. St. Lawrence University, NY.2009. Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain2009. National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian Institution

2009. University of Maryland, College Park2009. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque2009. VCU-African/African American Religions class2008. Several lectures on Mami Wata, Chazen Museum of Art2008. Fowler Museum-UCLA-teachers workshop.2008. Newark Museum, New Jersey2007. Edgewood College, Madison2007. California College of the Arts, San Francisco2007. Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco2006. Colgate University 2006. Boston University (talk broadcast on NPR-Boston)2006. African American History Month lecture, Kraft Foods, Madison2005. Health Sciences Learning Center, UW-Madison2005. South African National Museum, Cape Town, South Africa2005. Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University2005. Phoebe Hearst Museum, UC-Berkeley2005. School of Creative Media-City University of Hong Kong, China2005. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – Mellon Humanities Summer Institute2005. Museum of Fine Art, Boston2005. University of New England, ME2005. St. Mary’s Hall, San Antonio, TX2005. University of Florida-Gainesville2004. National University of Benin, Abomey-Calavi2003. River Arts Center, Sauk Prairie, WI.2003. African and African Diaspora Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM2002. Loyola University, Chicago2002. John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University2002. Textile Study Society, New York2001. Valmir Capoeira School, Salvador, Brazil2001. Transylvania University, Lexington, KY (3-lecture series) 2001. Siddi Arts Workshop, Mundgod, India2000. Musee Dapper, Paris2000. Museum of American Folk Art, New York2000. St. Thomas University, Minneapolis/St. Paul2000. Lehman College-CU, NY2000. BOSE, Making Connections Program, NY2000. Studio Museum in Harlem, NY2000. Museum for African Art, NY2000. Art Institute of Chicago.1999. Los Angeles County Museum of Art1999. University of Oregon, Eugene.1999. Emory University, M.C. Carlos Museum1998. 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 Francisco1996. Portland State University1995. Summerstage - Africa Fete, NY1995. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY1995. Princeton University1995. Indiana University-Ft. Wayne1995. Louisville Museum of Art, Kentucky 1995. Universite de Saint-Louis, Senegal1995. The Metropolitan Museum of Art1994. UC-Berkeley Museum of Art1994. National Museum of African Art1994. UCLA - Fowler Museum1994. UC-San Diego1994. Carleton College

1994. Ft. Wayne Museum of Art1994. Indiana University - Ft. Wayne1993. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh1993. Bowers Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California1993. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA1993. 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 Art1992. National Museum of African Art1991. Harvard University1991. Boston Museum of Fine Arts1991. High Museum of Art, Atlanta1991. University of Iowa1991. The Art Institute of Chicago1991. The New Orleans Museum of Art1991. Craft Alliance, St. Louis1990. The University of Florida, Gainesville1990. Miami University, Coral Gables1990. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

(2 lectures)1990. Northwestern University1990. University of Wisconsin, Madison1990. The Art Institute of Chicago (series of 5 lectures)1989. University of Michigan1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art1989. Southern University, Baton Rouge1989. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution1989. The California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles1989. Amherst College1989. The Toledo Museum of Art1988. May Weber Museum of Art, Chicago1988. Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia1988. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History1988. San Diego Museum of Art1988. Art Institute of Chicago1988. Northwestern University1988. California State University, Long Beach1988. Museum of Cultural History, UCLA1988. Los Angeles County Museum of Art1988. UCLA seminar on African Art and Social Control1988. Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, NY1987. Artsweek, Connecticut Public Television (Channel 49)1986. USIS, Lagos, Nigeria1986. Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY1986. Port Washington Library, NY1986. Columbia University, Associates in Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art1986. The Birmingham Museum of Art1985. The Metropolitan Museum of Art1985. 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, Bloomington1985. Amherst College1984. National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.1984. Amherst College1984. The Cleveland Institute of Art1983. Seattle Art Museum1983. University of California, Santa Barbara1983. Museum of Cultural History, U.C.L.A.

1983. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History1981. The High Museum of Art, Atlanta1981. Amherst College1980. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Leipzig, East Germany1980. The Metropolitan Museum of Art1980. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie1980. Ohio Art Education Association Conference, Cleveland1980. The High Museum of Art, Atlanta1979. The Cleveland Institute of Art1979. Indiana University, Seminar in the African Humanities, Bloomington1978. Amherst College1978. Wayne State University, Detroit1977. Cleveland Museum of Natural History1977. Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing1975. Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge1975. Indiana University, Seminar in the African Humanities, Bloomington1974. Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City1974. Boston University1974. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago1973. Institute of African Studies, Columbia University1972. Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey1972. Essex County College, Newark1972. Seton Hall University, New Jersey1970. Harlem-Morningside Lecture Series, N.Y.C.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

West African Research Association (WARA) – Board Member National Advisory Board (Member), Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, DC American Alliance of MuseumsInternational Visual Literacy AssociationSensory Studies NetworkAssociation of Academic Museums & Galleries BLAC Foundation (Board Member)College Art AssociationAfrican Studies AssociationAfrican Association of MadisonArts Council of the African Studies Association (founding member, Board of Directors)Society for Africanist ArcheologyWest African Research AssociationAmerican Society for Ethno-historyMidwest Art History SocietyThe African Diaspora in Asia (Network) - TADIAWisconsin Humanities Council (Board Member, 2003-2009)The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and LettersCongress on Research in Dance

COURSES:

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 ArtsFirst Year Interest Group (FIG) seminar – Exhibiting Arts, Culture and History in a MuseumGraduate Seminar: Practicum in Art History: Bibliography, Historiography, MethodsGraduate Seminar: Diaspora DynamicsGraduate Seminar: Arts of Masking in Africa and DiasporaGraduate Seminar: Occidentalism: Imaging the West in Africa, Asia, and the AmericasGraduate Seminar: Theories & Field Methods

Graduate Seminar: African Art--Image and Idea Graduate Seminar: Yoruba Art History and PhilosophyGraduate Seminar: African Antiquity Graduate Seminar: Art and Artists in AfricaOutreach-Teachers: Sin Fronteras-Bridges to the CaribbeanUndergraduate/Graduate Seminar: African Masking and the SensesUndergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Carnival Arts of the African Diaspora: Resistance and Empowerment?Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Museum Studies I & II – Exhibiting Africa, Practicing TheoryUndergraduate Seminar: Yoruba Beads, Body & SoulUndergraduate Seminar: African Arts of the YorubaIntroduction to African Art and ArchitectureArt and History in AfricaContemporary Art in AfricaArts of the African Diaspora African Art: Paleolithic to the Rise of West African EmpiresAfrican Art: The Rise of African Empires to the Beginning of the Colonial Era, 1000-1900Africa: An Introductory Survey through the ArtsAfrican-American Art HistoryArts of the Pacific, Native America, and AfricaArts of the South PacificOceanic and Native American ArtArt History and AppreciationWestern Art History: Renaissance to Present

LANGUAGES:

French (fluent); Yoruba (good); Portuguese (good); Spanish (good).

OTHER:

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.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),

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-present. 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.

2001-2. 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.

Updated October 2017