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Papers by Deborah Stokes
African Arts Magazine, 2020
Museum Cooperation Between Africa and Europe: A New Field for Museum Studies is a signi cant cont... more Museum Cooperation Between Africa and Europe: A New Field for Museum Studies is a signi cant contribution to the critical discourse on a fundamental question: What is a museum? e compendium comprises papers presented at the December 2016 conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) and the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA), Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe: Opportunities, Challenges and Modalities. Organized and hosted by the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, it was convened for the presentation of papers by academics and museum practitioners on critical issues and theories detailing a wide range of varying transcontinental cooperative projects over several decades. e editors, Laely, Meyer, and Schwere, selected thirteen case studies by sixteen contributors. e assembled chapters demonstrate detailed outcomes and proposals documenting a number of cooperative projects in Africa springing from, or in response to, distinct political and cul...
Shi ing Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art is the third in a series of thematic... more Shi ing Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art is the third in a series of thematic exhibitions of African art installed in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s (BMA) new Focus Gallery. e gallery debuted with Diverging Streams: Eastern Nigerian Art (April 26, 2015–April 17, 2016) followed by Design for Mobile Living: Art from Eastern Africa (June 1–November 27, 2016). Located adjacent to the recently (April 2015) reopened renovated and expanded galleries for African art, its 680 square feet fosters an intimate space for engagement through close looking, nding connections, critical thinking, and quiet re ection (Fig. 1). Shi ing Views, curated by Shannon Hill, Associate Curator for African Arts, with Kevin Tervala, former Curatorial Fellow in the Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Paci c Islands, features twenty-four works on paper by seven artists from the museum’s growing collection of contemporary art: David Goldblatt, Gavin Jantjes, William Kentridge, Julie Mehretu, S...
African Arts, 2003
... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RA... more ... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RAI Jos and Kano in Nigeria, and of Leopold-ville, Luluabourg, and Basongo, among other places, in the Belgian Congo (Stokes Hammer 1994:84). ...
Museums & Social Issues, 2010
Museum Anthropology, 2013
African Arts, 2010
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African Arts, 2003
... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RA... more ... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RAI Jos and Kano in Nigeria, and of Leopold-ville, Luluabourg, and Basongo, among other places, in the Belgian Congo (Stokes Hammer 1994:84). ...
African Arts Magazine, 2020
Museum Cooperation Between Africa and Europe: A New Field for Museum Studies is a signi cant cont... more Museum Cooperation Between Africa and Europe: A New Field for Museum Studies is a signi cant contribution to the critical discourse on a fundamental question: What is a museum? e compendium comprises papers presented at the December 2016 conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) and the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA), Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe: Opportunities, Challenges and Modalities. Organized and hosted by the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, it was convened for the presentation of papers by academics and museum practitioners on critical issues and theories detailing a wide range of varying transcontinental cooperative projects over several decades. e editors, Laely, Meyer, and Schwere, selected thirteen case studies by sixteen contributors. e assembled chapters demonstrate detailed outcomes and proposals documenting a number of cooperative projects in Africa springing from, or in response to, distinct political and cul...
Shi ing Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art is the third in a series of thematic... more Shi ing Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art is the third in a series of thematic exhibitions of African art installed in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s (BMA) new Focus Gallery. e gallery debuted with Diverging Streams: Eastern Nigerian Art (April 26, 2015–April 17, 2016) followed by Design for Mobile Living: Art from Eastern Africa (June 1–November 27, 2016). Located adjacent to the recently (April 2015) reopened renovated and expanded galleries for African art, its 680 square feet fosters an intimate space for engagement through close looking, nding connections, critical thinking, and quiet re ection (Fig. 1). Shi ing Views, curated by Shannon Hill, Associate Curator for African Arts, with Kevin Tervala, former Curatorial Fellow in the Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Paci c Islands, features twenty-four works on paper by seven artists from the museum’s growing collection of contemporary art: David Goldblatt, Gavin Jantjes, William Kentridge, Julie Mehretu, S...
African Arts, 2003
... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RA... more ... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RAI Jos and Kano in Nigeria, and of Leopold-ville, Luluabourg, and Basongo, among other places, in the Belgian Congo (Stokes Hammer 1994:84). ...
Museums & Social Issues, 2010
Museum Anthropology, 2013
African Arts, 2010
Page 1. Page 2.
African Arts, 2003
... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RA... more ... RAI Page 3. B ; :: ~.d~M r r r ? COURTESY OF THE UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, O RAI Jos and Kano in Nigeria, and of Leopold-ville, Luluabourg, and Basongo, among other places, in the Belgian Congo (Stokes Hammer 1994:84). ...