Descriptive Entry
This accession documents closed, denied, and unfinished exhibitions at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA). These records contain correspondence, research, notes, checklists, label texts, brochures, floor plans and designs, clippings, loan information, photographs, slides, transparencies, and negatives. Some materials are in electronic format.
Exhibitions documented in this accession include "Traditional Costumery and Jewelry in Africa;" "Traditional Costumes and Jewelry of Egypt;" "Life Afterlife: African Funerary Sculpture;" "The Stranger Among Us;" "African Emblems of Status;" "From the Earth: African Ceramic Art;" "African Islam;" "African Mankala;" "Patterns and Forms;" "Praise Poems: The Katherine White Collection;" "African Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Homme;" "History, Context and Materials: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the National Museum of African Art;" "The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art;" "A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture;" "Patterns of Life: West African Strip-Weaving Traditions;" "African Art in the Cycle of Life;" "Objects of Use;" "The Permanent Collection of the National Museum of African Art;" "Images of Power and Identity;" "Images from Bamum: German Colonial Photography at the Court of King Njoya, Cameroon, West Africa, 1902-1915;" "Shoowa Design: Raffia Textiles from Zaire;" "Kalabari Ancestral Screens: Levels of Meaning;" "Echoes of the Kalabari: Sculpture by Sokari Douglas Camp;" "Gold of Africa: Jewelry and Ornaments from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal;" "Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments;" "The Essential Gourd;" "Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa;" "Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought;" "African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire;" "Africa Illustrated: Fantasy and Reality before 1900;" "Art of the Personal Object;" "Purpose and Perfection: Pottery as a Woman's Art in Central Africa;" "Between Man and the Gods: Sacrifice and Ceremony on a Cast Metal Ring;" "New Dimensions: Selections from the Contemporary Collection;" "Elmina: Art and Trade on the West African Coast;" "Astonishment and Power: Kongo Minkisi and the Art of Renee Stout;" "Asen: Iron Altars from Ouidah, Republic of Benin;" "Face of the Spirits: Masks from the Zaire Basin;" "Beaded Splendor;" "Mohammad Omer Khalil, Etchings; Amir I. M. Nour, Sculpture;" "Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa;" "The Ancient Nubian City of Kerma, 2500-1500 B.C.;" "The Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300-1897;" "Art from the Forge: Tuareg Metalwork;" "Three Explorations: Yoruba, 'Temne,' and Baga;" "Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head;" "Ceramic Gestures: New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo;" "Adire: Resist-Dyed Cloths of the Yoruba;" "Treasures from Tervuren: Selections from the Belgian Royal Museum for Central Africa;" "The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group;" "Gifts to the National Collection of African Art;" "A Spiral of History: A Carved Tusk from the Loango Coast, Congo;" "Olowe of Ise: A Yoruba Sculptor to Kings;" "African Forms in the Furniture of Pierre Legrain;" "Baule: African Art/Western Eyes;" "Hats Off! A Salute to African Headwear;" "Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity;" "A Concrete Vision: Oshogbo Art in the 1960s;" "The Artistry of African Currency;" "Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa;" "Audible Artworks: Selected African Musical Instruments;" "Identity of the Sacred: Two Nigerian Shrine Figures;" "Chant Avedissian: A Contemporary Artist of Egypt;" "In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon;" "Making the Grade: Arts of Initiation;" "Spectacular Display: The Art of Nkanu Initiation Rituals;" "The Last Supper Revisited;" "Gifts and Blessings: The Textile Arts of Madagascar;" "A Personal Journey: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection;" "Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora;" "The Fabric of Moroccan Life;" "InSights;" "Playful Performers;" "Treasures;" "TEXTures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art;" "Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art;" "African Gold: Selections from the Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;" "BIG/small;" "Body of Evidence;" "Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art;" "First Look: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection;" "African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection;" "Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art;" "Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries;" "The Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World;" "El Anatsui: Gawu;" "Treasures 2008;" "Treasures II;" "TxtStyles/Fashioning Identity;" "Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection;" "Artists in Dialogue: Antonio Ole and Aime Mpane;" "Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas;" "Artful Animals;" "African Vision: Disney-Tishman Highlights;" "Yinka Shonibare MBE;" "The Healing Power of Art: Works of Art by Haitian Children after the Earthquake;" "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art;" "Paul Emmanuel: Transitions;" and "A Brave New World."
