It took the UCLA African Arts editorial board less than a minute to decide unanimously to dedicate a full issue of the journal to honoring Doran H. Ross and his expansive contributions to the field of African and African Diaspora arts and expressive culture (Fig. 1). To start, there is probably no one who has contributed more to African Arts than Doran. As Donald Cosentino, his former coeditor, writes in his First Word, Doran was an editor for nearly thirty years, from 1988 to 2015, and even more impressively, published more than fifty pieces over the course of his career. His first article was published in 1974, his first book review in 1975, and his first exhibition review in 1981. Later came many Portfolios, In Memoria, and First Words. Looking over his CV, there is hardly a year that went by from 1974–2000 where he did not publish...
Doran H. Ross
Marla C. Berns is the Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director Emerita of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Her publishing and curatorial work concentrates on women's arts of Northeastern Nigeria and encompasses ceramic sculpture, decorated gourds, programs of body scarification, and issues of gender and identity. She was the project director of the Fowler's 2018–2020 international traveling exhibition Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, for which she also was co-curator and coeditor and contributing author to the accompanying publication. In 2013 she received the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. She received the ACASA Leadership Award in 2021. She has been on the African Arts editorial board since 2001. berns@arts.ucla.edu
Betsy D. Quick is the former director of education and curatorial affairs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, where she was responsible for the development of interpretive exhibition components and school/teacher services for K-12 and university levels. She has authored publications and articles on the teaching of world arts and humanities and curated a number of African art exhibitions at the Fowler, including Mandela for President: South Africa Votes for Democracy and Yards of Style: African-Print Cloths from Ghana, and was project director and co-curator of the Fowler's traveling exhibition African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style. Quick retired from UCLA in 2016, having worked at the Fowler for forty years. bquick@arts.ucla.edu
Marla C. Berns is the Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director Emerita of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Her publishing and curatorial work concentrates on women's arts of Northeastern Nigeria and encompasses ceramic sculpture, decorated gourds, programs of body scarification, and issues of gender and identity. She was the project director of the Fowler's 2018–2020 international traveling exhibition Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, for which she also was co-curator and coeditor and contributing author to the accompanying publication. In 2013 she received the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. She received the ACASA Leadership Award in 2021. She has been on the African Arts editorial board since 2001. berns@arts.ucla.edu
Betsy D. Quick is the former director of education and curatorial affairs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, where she was responsible for the development of interpretive exhibition components and school/teacher services for K-12 and university levels. She has authored publications and articles on the teaching of world arts and humanities and curated a number of African art exhibitions at the Fowler, including Mandela for President: South Africa Votes for Democracy and Yards of Style: African-Print Cloths from Ghana, and was project director and co-curator of the Fowler's traveling exhibition African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style. Quick retired from UCLA in 2016, having worked at the Fowler for forty years. bquick@arts.ucla.edu
Marla C. Berns, Betsy D. Quick; Doran H. Ross. African Arts 2022; 55 (1): 8–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00624
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