Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures

Alisa LaGamma has undertaken research in Gabon, Mali, South Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Botswana and taught in the art history departments at Rutgers, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University and NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. As curator of African art the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dr. LaGamma, has organized numerous special exhibitions and authored their accompanying publications including The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End (2008), Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary (2007); Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture (2004), Genesis: Ideas of Origins in African Sculpture (2002), Art and Oracle: Spirit Voices of Africa (2000), and Master Hand: Individuality and Creativity Among Yoruba Sculptors (1997). alisa.lagamma@metmuseum.org