Recent Presentations
“Lega Art: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa.” Legion of Honor, San Francisco (June)
“Iconoclasm.” Works in Progress Series, Getty Center, Los Angeles (February)
“Contemporary Nigerian Painting.” Public Lecture in conjunction with “Prince Twin Seven-Seven,” and exhibition in the Porter Faculty Gallery, in conjunction with the UCSC 2002 Global African Music Festival
“Metaphors and Meanings in Art among the Lega.” Invited lecture at UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (December)
“Visual Secrets: Hats of the Lega.” Textile Roundtable at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (November)
“Women’s Artistic Journeys in Central Africa.” Paper presented in Reconsidering
the Arts and
Cultures of Central Africa. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College
(October).
“Missing in Action: Women’s Art in Central Africa.” Ancient Arts Council,
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (October)
“The Denser the Better: Designs among the Kuba peoples (DRC).” University Seminar, Columbia University (February)
“Breaking Stereotypes: A History of the Study of African Art.” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“African Art and Archaeology.” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“Ancestors: Art and the Afterlife.” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“African Portraits and Praise Poems.” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“Lunda and Luvale Initiations Arts.” Guest lecture, University of Kansas
“But is it art? Lunda and Luvale Initiations Arts.” Guest lecture, University of Iowa
“Sala Mpasu Masquerading.” Guest lecture, University of Kansas
"Secrets You Don't Tell Your Husband: Masquerades of the Lunda and Luvale, Zambia" Los Donos, UCLA
"Play and Ritual: Together at Last." Presented at Symposium entitled "Play and Ritual in African Art." UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
“Masquerades and Gender among the Lunda and Luvale, Zambia." Plato
Society, Los Angeles,
California
"Isn't S/He a Doll? Play and Ritual in African Sculpture." James Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA
"Myth or Reality? Sala Mpasu Masquerades." Ethnic Arts Council, Los Angeles, California
"Isn't S/He a Doll?" Friends of Ethnic Art, Santa Barbara, California
"Art of Zaire." DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California
"Sala Mpasu Masks." Friends of African Art, Tampa, Florida
"Woman=Mask: Initiation Arts of the Lunda and Luvale (Zambia)." University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
"Woman=Mask: Initiation Arts of the Lunda and Luvale (Zambia)." University of Florida, Gainesville
"Woman=Mask: Initiation Arts of the Lunda and Luvale (Zambia)."
University of California,
San Diego
"Zairian Sculpture." Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"Crowning Achievements: African Hats as Art," UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
"Mwadi and Mukanda: Art, Performance, and Gender Construction among the Lunda Ndembu and their Neighbors," University of Zambia
"Iconoclasm and Change: Masquerades of the Sala Mpasu." University of California, Los Angeles
"Transitions in African Art.” University of California, Los Angeles