Other essays in this issue sketch the range and depth of Doran H. Ross's research on Ghanaian arts, his enormous role at the Fowler Museum, and groundbreaking exhibition projects developed during his tenure. Beyond all that, Doran also put his prodigious energy and intellect to work in another arena: working with diverse organizations and programs to strengthen museum and heritage institutions on the African continent and to provide opportunities for colleagues there through workshops, consulting, and mentoring. After consulting in the early 1980s, this work began in earnest in 1986 with the five-year Joint Textile Collection and Documentation Project, a collaboration between Mali's National Museum and the UCLA Museum of Cultural History (as it was then called) that Doran launched with Claude Ardouin, Philip Ravenhill, and Rachel Hoffman (Hoffman, this issue). Developed from a 1984 workshop on textile conservation coordinated by the West African Museums Project (WAMP), with ICCROM and...
Continental Collaboration: Consulting, Institution Building, and Mentoring Across Africa
Corinne Kratz is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies at Emory University and Emory director for the African Critical Inquiry Programme, as well as research affiliate at the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of International Folk Art. She began research in Kenya in the mid-1970s and has worked with colleagues in South Africa since 1999. Kratz writes about culture and communication; performance and ritual; and the histories and politics of representation in visual and verbal media, particularly in museums, exhibitions, and photography. She is currently working on a book about exhibit design called Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition, Design, Communication. [email protected]
Corinne Kratz is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies at Emory University and Emory director for the African Critical Inquiry Programme, as well as research affiliate at the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of International Folk Art. She began research in Kenya in the mid-1970s and has worked with colleagues in South Africa since 1999. Kratz writes about culture and communication; performance and ritual; and the histories and politics of representation in visual and verbal media, particularly in museums, exhibitions, and photography. She is currently working on a book about exhibit design called Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition, Design, Communication. [email protected]
Corinne A. Kratz; Continental Collaboration: Consulting, Institution Building, and Mentoring Across Africa. African Arts 2022; 55 (1): 68–73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00638
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