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ACASA ACASA Arkansas Coalition Against Sexual Assault
ACASA Ackoff Center for the Advancement of the System Approach
 symposium see Triennial tri·en·ni·al  
adj.
1. Occurring every third year.

2. Lasting three years.

n.
1. A third anniversary.

2. A ceremony or celebration occurring every three years.
 Symposium on African Art African art, art created by the peoples south of the Sahara.

The predominant art forms are masks and figures, which were generally used in religious ceremonies.
 

Africa Museum, Tervuren see Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race.  see also Caribbean; African diaspora The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia.  

African American altars Bettelheim (Dialogue) Wehmeyer (Dialogue)

African American contemporary art Bernard (Books) H. Cosentino & Fabius (First Word)

African diaspora, contemporary art Rush (article)

African-related art see African American; African diaspora; Caribbean

"African Voices" exhibition Arnoldi, Kreamer & Mason (article) Soppelsa (Recent Exhibitions)

Afro-American see African American

AIDS-related art Roberts (article)

altars, African American Bettelheim (Dialogue) Wehmeyer (Dialogue)

American see African diaspora; African American

Amistad rebellion DeCarbo (Recent Exhibitions)

animal masquerades, Mali Colleyn & Farrell (Exhibition Preview) Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

antiquities see archaeology

archaeology, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa.  Brokensha (Recent Exhibitions)

architecture, Cameroon Nelson (article)

architecture, Nigeria Osasona (Research Note)

art collections see collections of African art

art criticism, contemporary Okoye (Books)

art market van Wyk (First Word)

art theory see art criticism

Asante kente ken·te  
n.
1. A brightly patterned, handwoven ceremonial cloth of the Ashanti.

2. A durable machine-woven fabric similar to this fabric, prominently featured in Afrocentric fashion.
 cloth Rovine (Books)

Ashanti see Asante

Asma'u, Nana Masterton (Books)

"Authentic/Ex-Centric: Africa In and Out of Africa" exhibition Hassan & Oguibe (article)

Bamana sculpture Colleyn & Farrell (Exhibition Preview)

"Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali" exhibition Colleyn & Farrell (Exhibition Preview)

Bambara see Bamana

bas-reliefs, Benin (Republic) Rush (Books)

basketry basketry, art of weaving or coiling and sewing flexible materials to form vessels or other commodities. The materials used include twigs, roots, strips of hide, splints, osier willows, bamboo splits, cane or rattan, raffia, grasses, straw, and crepe paper.  see also fiber

basketry, South Africa Roberts (article)

beadwork beadwork

Ornamental work in beads. In the Middle Ages beads were used to embellish embroidery work. In Renaissance and Elizabethan England, clothing, purses, fancy boxes, and small pictures were adorned with beads.
, South Africa Roberts (article)

Bedia, Jose Bettelheim (article)

Belgian Congo Belgian Congo: see Congo, Democratic Republic of the.  see also Congo (Democratic Republic)

Belgian Congo, art Brincard (Recent Exhibitions)

Benin (Republic), art restoration and conservation Rush (Books)

Benin (Republic), bas-reliefs Rush (Books)

Benin (Republic), royal arts Rush (Books)

Benin (Republic), wall decoration Rush (Books)

Benin (Republic), contemporary art Rush (article)

boat masquerade performances Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

"Body Politics: The Female Image in African Art" exhibition H. Cosentino & Fabius (First Word)

book reviews see Table of Contents, Index by Department: Books

British Museum British Museum, the national repository in London for treasures in science and art. Located in the Bloomsbury section of the city, it has departments of antiquities, prints and drawings, coins and medals, and ethnography.  African galleries Spring, Barley & Hudson (article)

bushcow masks, Cameroon Muller (article)

buying art see art market

Camara, Fode Grabski (Recent Exhibitions)

Cameroon, architecture Nelson (article)

Cameroon, masks Muller (article)

Cameroon, royal arts Nelson (article)

Cameroon, wall decoration Nelson (article)

Caribbean see also African diaspora

Caribbean, contemporary art Bettelheim (article)

central Africa, figure sculpture Clarke (article)

central Africa, art collection Clarke (article)

ceramic art This article is about artwork made out of clay. For ceramic materials and uses in general, see Ceramic.

Ceramics and ceramic art in the art world means artwork made out of clay bodies and fired into the hardened ceramic form.
, contemporary Rovine (Portfolio)

ceramic art, Mali Rovine (Portfolio)

chiefs' art see royal art

cinema see film

cloth see textiles

coiffure coiffure: see hairdressing.  see hair

collections of African art Arnoldi, Kreamer & Mason (article): National Museum of Natural History For the museum in Manhattan, see .

This article is about the museum in Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see National Museum of Natural History (disambiguation).

The National Museum of Natural History
 Cameron (article): Ginzberg, Marc & Denyse Clarke (article): Gussman, Lawrence Spring, Barley & Hudson (article): British Museum Brincard (Recent Exhibitions): Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Czekelius (Books): German museums LaGamma (New Acquisitions): Metropolitan Museum of Art Petridis (Recent Exhibitions): Musee du Louvre Louvre (l`vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent.  Sanyal (Recent Exhibitions): Peabody Museum The Peabody Museum can refer to several museums founded by or dedicated to George Peabody:
  • George Peabody House Museum at his birthplace in Peabody, Massachusetts
  • Peabody Leather Museum in Peabody, Massachusetts
, Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College


Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
 

colonial figures, Congo (Democratic Republic) Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

colonial town hall Osasona (Research Note)

colonialism, Belgian Congo Brincard (Recent Exhibitions)

commerce in art see art market

conceptual art conceptual art

Any of various art forms in which the idea for a work of art is considered more important than the finished product. The theory was explored by Marcel Duchamp from c. 1910, but the term was coined in the late 1950s by Edward Kienholz.
, Africa and the diaspora Hassan & Oguibe (article)

Congo (Democratic Republic), art Brincard (Recent Exhibitions)

Congo (Democratic Republic), initiation arts Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

Congo (Kinshasa) see Congo (Democratic Republic)

Congo Reglas see Palo Monte

conservation of art see restoration and conservation of art

contemporary art, Africa Hassan & Oguibe (article) Allara (Recent Exhibitions) Ezra (Books) Okoye (Books)

contemporary art, African American Bernard (Books) H. Cosentino & Fabius (First Word)

contemporary art, African diaspora Rush (article)

contemporary art, Benin (republic) Rush (article)

contemporary art, Caribbean Bettelheim (article)

contemporary art, conceptual Hassan & Oguibe (article)

contemporary art, Ghana Ross (Porffolio)

contemporary art, Mali Rovine (Portfolio)

contemporary art, Nigeria/England Hynes (article) Picton (article) Cosentino (Dialogue) Hynes (Dialogue)

contemporary art, Senegal Grabski (Recent Exhibitions)

contemporary art, Sudan Palmer (Recent Exhibitions)

contemporary art, teaching of Ezra (Dialogue) Kasfir (Dialogue) Lawal (Dialogue) Roy (Dialogue) Silverman (Dialogue)

contemporary art, Zimbabwe Zilberg (Film/Video), pp. 79, 80

contemporary photography, Africa Bessire (Books)

court art see royal art

Cuba, Palo Monte art Bettelheim (article)

cultural borrowing, northern Cameroon Muller (article)

Dahomey see Benin (Republic)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) see Congo (Democratic Republic)

Diakite, Baba Wague Rovine (Portfolio)

Dialogue see under Table of Contents, Index by Department

"Dialogues on Body Politics" symposium H. Cosentino & Fabius (First Word)

diaspora see African American; African diaspora; Caribbean

Dii masks Muller (article)

divination divination, practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through communication with divine sources and through omens, oracles, signs, and portents.  arts Peek (Recent Exhibitions)

domestic arts see utilitarian arts

education see teaching

El Sharif, Ahmed Palmer (Recent Exhibitions)

encyclopedia of native arts Bessire (Books)

England/Nigeria, contemporary art Hynes (article) Picton (article) Cosentino (Dialogue) Hynes (Dialogue)

English museum collections Spring, Barley & Hudson (article)

ethics in the art trade van Wyk (First Word)

ethnicity in contemporary art Hynes (article) Picton (article) Cosentino (Dialogue) Hynes (Dialogue)

Evans, Walker Evans, Walker, 1903–75, American photographer, b. St. Louis. Evans began his photographic career in 1928. His studies of Victorian architecture and his photographs of the rural South during the Great Depression, made for the Farm Security Administration, are  Grossman (Books)

Ewe kente cloth Rovine (Books)

Exhibition Previews see under Table of Contents, Index by Department

exhibition design and theory Arnoldi, Kreamer & Mason (article) Lionnet (article) Spring, Barley & Hudson (article)

exhibition reviews see Table of Contents, Index by Department: Recent Exhibitions Exhibition Previews

fiber masquerades Muller (article) Vogel & Amoldi (Photo Essay)

fieldwork photography see Table of Contents, Index by Department: Photo Essays

figure sculpture, central Africa Binkley (Exhibition Preview) Clarke (article)

film reviews see under Table of Contents, Index by Department: Film/Video

First Word see under Table of Contents, Index by Department

Fon palace bas-reliefs Rush (Books)

Fowler Museum of Cultural History see UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History The Fowler Museum at UCLA or more commonly, The Fowler is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present.  

Franklin, Ruth Seligman (In Memoriam In Memoriam

Tennyson’s tribute to his friend, A. H. Hallam. [Br. Lit.: Harvey, 808]

See : Grief
)

Fulbe poet Masterton (Books)

German museum collections of African art Czekelius (Books)

Ghana, contemporary painting Ross (Portfolio)

Ghana, textiles Rovine (Books) Sarkodie-Mensah (Books)

Ginzberg (Marc and Denyse) collection Cameron (article)

goldwork goldwork, ornaments, jewelry, and vessels created from gold. Such works have figured in almost every stage of civilization as symbols of wealth and power. The Ancient World


The earliest-known fine goldwork is from Ur in Mesopotamia. Dating from c.
, South Africa Brokensha (Recent Exhibitions)

Gussman (Lawrence) collection Clarke (article)

hair in art Kreamer p. 85 (Recent Exhibitions)

Harvard University see Peabody Museum

head as focus in African art Sanyal (Recent Exhibitions)

heritage, African see diaspora; ethnicity

"Hidden Treasures
For the short-lived cereal, see Hidden Treasures (cereal)


Hidden Treasures is an EP by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released in 1995.
" exhibition Lionnet (article)

Historical Museum of Abomey basreliefs Rush (Books)

HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome  see AIDS

house, Mousgoum Nelson (article)

household arts see utilitarian arts

Hughes, George Ross George Ross may refer to:
  • George Ross (delegate) (1730–1779), signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
  • George Ross (1746-1801), Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1788-1790
  • George H.
 (Portfolio)

human figure see figure sculpture identity, issues of see ethnicity

Ife town hall Osasona (Research Note)

In Memoriam see under Table of Contents, Index by Department

Indian image on New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded  altars Bettelheim (Dialogue) Wehmeyer (Dialogue)

initiation art, Congo (Democratic Republic) Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

initiation into Palo Monte Bettelheim (article)

initiation masquerades, Cameroon Muller (article)

installation art, contemporary Hassan & Oguibe (article)

Islamic see Muslim

kente cloth Rovine (Books) Sarkodie-Mensah (Books)

KwaZulu-Natal, AIDS-awareness workshops Roberts (article)

letters to the editor see Table of Contents, Index by Department: Dialogue

Louvre see Musee du Louvre

Luba figure sculpture H. Cosentino & Fabius (First Word)

Mali, animal masquerades Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

Mali ceramic art Rovine (Portfolio)

Mali, contemporary art Rovine (Portfolio)

Mali, fiber masquerades Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

Mali masquerades Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

Mali, puppet masquerades Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

Mali sculpture Colleyn & Farrell (Exhibition Preview)

Mariga, Joram Zilberg (Film/Video) p. 80

Marshall, Kerry James Bernard (Books)

masks see also masquerades

masks, Cameroon Muller (article)

masks, Mali Colleyn & Farrell (Exhibition Preview)

masks, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone (sēĕr`ə lēō`nē, lēōn`; sēr`ə lēōn), officially Republic of Sierra Leone, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,018,000), 27,699 sq mi (71,740 sq km), W Africa.  DeCarbo (Recent Exhibitions)

masquerades, Mali Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

memorial art see public monuments

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 LaGamma (New Acquisitions)

minkisi see nkisi

modern art see contemporary art

Mousgoum house Nelson (article)

Mousgoum wall decoration Nelson (article)

movies see film

mud architecture, Cameroon Nelson (article)

Mukomberanwa, Nicholas Zilberg (Film/Video) p. 80

Mundang masquerade Muller (article)

murals see wall decoration

Musee du Louvre, collection of Petridis (Recent Exhibitions)

Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, collection of Brincard (Recent Exhibitions)

Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, "Hidden Treasures" exhibition Lionnet (article)

museological issues see exhibition design and theory

Museum for African Art The Museum for African Art is located in the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA). Founded in 1984, the museum is "dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture.  exhibition Lionnet (article) Colleyn & Farrell (Exhibition Preview)

Museum of Cultural History, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
 see UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Museum of Mankind see British Museum

museum collections see collections of African art

Muslim poet Masterton (Books)

Natal see KwaZulu-Natal

National Museum of African Art The National Museum of African Art is a museum that is part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. Located on the National Mall, the museum specializes in African art and culture.  exhibition Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

National Museum of Natural History African galleries Arnoldi, Kreamer & Mason (article) Soppelsa (Recent Exhibitions)

Native American see Indian

New Orleans Spiritual Church altars Bettelheim (Dialogue) Wehmeyer (Dialogue)

Nigeria, architecture Osasona (Research Note)

Nigeria/England, contemporary art Hynes (article) Picton (article) Cosentino (Dialogue) Hynes (Dialogue)

Nkanu initiation arts Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies.  "Living Traditions in Africa and the Americas" exhibition Lionnet (article)

obituaries see Table of Contents, Index by Department: In Memoriam

Ofili, Chris Hynes (Dialogue) Cosentino (Dialogue)

Ouidah festival of Vodun arts Rush (article)

painting, contemporary Ross (Portfolio)

Palo Monte contemporary art Bettelheim (article)

Palo Monte Mayombe religion Bettelheim (article)

Pavilion des Sessions, Musee du Louvre Petridis (Recent Exhibitions)

Peabody Museum, Harvard University, collection of Sanyal (Recent Exhibitions)

Perez Bravo, Marta Maria Bettelheim (article)

photographs see also Table of Contents, Index by Department: Photo Essay

photographs of African art Grossman (Books)

photography, Africa Bessire (Recent Exhibitions)

prehistory prehistory, period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to  see archaeology

private collections of African art Cameron (article): Ginzberg, Marc & Denyse Clarke (article): Gussman, Lawrence

publishing on African art, difficulties of Nelson (First Word)

public monuments Rush (article)

puppet masquerades, Mali Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

raffia raffia (răf`ēə) or raphia (rā`fēə), fiber obtained from the raffia palm of Madagascar, exported for various uses, such as tying up plants that require support, binding together vegetables  see fiber

Recent Acquisitions see under Table of Contents, Index by Department

Recent Exhibitions see under Table of Contents, Index by Department

regalia see royal art

Reginfo Perez, Ludvik Bettelheim (article)

Research Notes see under Table of Contents, Index by Department

restoration and conservation of art, Benin (Republic) Rush (Books)

reviews of books see Table of Contents, Index by Department: Books

reviews of exhibitions see Table of Contents, Index by Department: Exhibition Previews; Recent Exhibitions

Rhodesia see Zimbabwe

Royal Museum for Central Africa see Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

royal art, Africa Hicks (Books)

royal art, Benin (Republic) Rush (Books)

royal art, Cameroon Nelson (article)

Saar, Alison H. Cosentino & Fabius (First Word)

Sainsbury African Galleries, British Museum Spring, Barley & Hudson (article)

Senegal, contemporary painting Grabski (Recent Exhibitions)

Shonibare, Yinka Hynes (article) Picton (article)

shrines see altars

Sieber, Roy Thompson (in Memoriam)

Sierra Leone, masks DeCarbo (Recent Exhibitions)

slave trade slave trade

Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan
, commemoration of Rush (article)

Smithsonian Institution see National Museum of African Art; National Museum of Natural History

Somono puppet masquerades Vogel & Arnoldi (Photo Essay)

South Africa, archaeology Brokensha (Recent Exhibitions)

South Africa, basketry Roberts (article)

South Africa, beadwork Roberts (article)

South Africa, goldwork Brokensha (Recent Exhibitions)

southern African art Buntman (Recent Exhibitions)

"Spectacular Display: The Art of Nkanu Initiation Rituals" exhibition Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

Spiritual Church altars, New Orleans Bettelheim (Dialogue) Wehmeyer (Dialogue)

stone sculpture, contemporary, Zimbabawe Zilberg (Film/Video), pp. 79, 80

Sudan, contemporary art Palmer (Recent Exhibitions)

symposiums see Triennial Symposium

teaching about kente cloth Sarkodie-Mensah (Books)

teaching contemporary African art Ezra (Dialogue) Kasfir (Dialogue) Lawal (Dialogue) Roy (Dialogue) Silverrnan (Dialogue)

telephone-wire baskets, South Africa Roberts (article)

Tervuren Museum see Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

textiles, contemporary "African" prints Hynes (article) Picton (article)

textiles, Ghana Rovine (Books) Sarkodie-Mensah (Books)

town hall, Nigeria Osasona (Research Note)

trade in art see art market

Triennial Symposium on African Art Bentor (First Word) Bettelheim (First Word) Ezra (First Word) Quick (First Word)

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History symposium H. Cosentino & Fabius (First Word)

United States see African American; diaspora

University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising.  see UCLA

utilitarian arts Cameron (article)

Venice Biennale, African exhibition Hassan & Oguibe (article)

Virgin Islands symposium see Triennial Symposium on African Art

Vodun arts, contemporary Rush (article)

Wague Diakite, Baba see Diakite

wall decoration, Benin (Republic) Rush (Books)

wall decoration, Cameroon Nelson (article)

wall decoration, Congo Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

wall panels for initiation Binkley (Exhibition Preview)

water masquerades see boat masquerades

writing about African art Nelson (First Word)

Yoruba town hall Osasona (Research Note)

Zaire see Congo (Democratic Republic); see also Belgian Congo

Zimbabwe, archaeology Brokenshaw (Recent Exhibitions)

Zimbabwe, contemporary stone sculpture Zilberg (Film/Video), pp. 79, 80

Zulu AIDS-related crafts Roberts (article)
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