NAME: Henry John Drewal

CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Henry John Drewal

ADDRESS(WORK):Department of Art History

Chazen Museum of Art

800 University Avenue

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI 53706

(608) 263-9362/263-2340

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(HOME):316 Glen Thistle Court

Madison, WI 53705

(608) 334-2258

EDUCATION:

1973.Ph.D., Columbia University, N.Y.

1969.Certificate of African Studies (M.A.), Institute of African Studies, Columbia University

1968.M.A., Columbia University

1964.B.A., Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (TEACHING):

1990-present.Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, joint appointment with the Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1982-1990.Professor, Art Department, Cleveland State University.

1988 (Jan.-June). Visiting Professor, Art History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1986 (Jan.-June). Visiting Professor, Art History, SUNY at Purchase, New York.

1982-1985.Professor and Chairperson, Art Department, Cleveland State University.

1977-82.Associate Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University.

1973-77.Assistant Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University.

PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, CATALOGS, EDITED VOLUMES):

In Preparation.Co-Editor (with Allen Roberts), Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths. LA: Fowler Museum of UCLA and University of Washington Press. [expected 2018]

2013.Guest Editor with article and bibliography, special issue on Afro-India for African Arts, 46, 1, Spring.

2009/2010.Dinastia y Divinidad: Arte Ife en Antiqua Nigeria (with Enid Schildkrout). Santander, Spain: Fundacion Marcelino Botin and the Museum for African Art, NY. 521 pp. [2010 editions: Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. London: The British Museum Press and the Museum for African Art, NY. 184 pp. and Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria. New York: Museum for African Art, 184 pp.]

2008.Editor, Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 681 pp. [46 contributors, plus DVD compiled by Andy Dayton] [Winner of the 2011 ACASA Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award]

2008.Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of UCLA and University of Washington Press, 227 pp.

2006.Sensing Spirit, Healing with Art: Arturo Lindsay. Catalogue essay, Sumter Gallery, SC, 26 pp.

2004.Co-editor, “African Art at the Elvehjem,” Bulletin/Biennial Report 2001-3 – Elvehjem Museum of Art. Madison: UW-Madison, pp.16-36.

2002.Editor, Gallery Guide for Revealing Forms: African Art from the Elvehjem Collection, Elvehjem Museum of Art, UW-Madison. 16 pp.

1998.Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe (with John Mason). Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 288 pp. (Finalist, Herskovits Award of ASA, 1999 and ACASA Arnold Rubin Award, 2001)

1996.Editor with introduction, "Reflecting on African Reflections," Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin, 1993-5, pp.5-79.

1994.Editor with essay (with Rowland Abiodun and John Pemberton III), The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts. Smithsonian Institution Press with the support of the Societé Suisse d'Études Africaines and the Rietberg Museum, Switzerland. 275 pp.

1991.Yoruba Art and Aesthetics (with Rowland Abiodun and John Pemberton III). Zurich: Rietberg Museum. 103 pp.

1989.Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (with John Pemberton III and Rowland Abiodun). New York: Alfred Knopf and The Center for African Art. 256 pp.

1989.Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent (with David Driskell). Los Angeles: The California Afro-American Museum. 104 pp.

1989.African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 25 pp.

1988.Guest Editor with Essay. Object and Intellect: Interpretations of Meaning in African Art. Special issue of Art Journal, 47, 2, Summer. 85 pp.

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1988.Shapes of the Mind: African Art from Long Island Collections. Hempstead, New York: Hofstra University. 31 pp.

1984.Editor with Introduction. Dimensions in Black Art -- Addendum. Cleveland: Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University. 12 pp.

1983.Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba (with Margaret Thompson Drewal). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 352 pp. [Finalist for the 1983 M. J. Herskovits Award] [2nd Edition, 1990.]

1980.African Artistry: Technique and Aesthetics in Yoruba Sculpture. Atlanta: The High Museum of Art. 100 pp.

1978.Guest Editor with Introduction. African Arts, Special Issue entitled "The Arts of Egungun among Yoruba Peoples," XI, 3, April.

1977.Traditional Art of the Nigerian Peoples: The Ratner Collection. Washington, D.C.: Museum of African Art. 58 pp.

1976.Editor with Introduction. African Fabrics. Cleveland: Cleveland State University. 15 pp. with a slide set, notes, and bibliography.

1975.Editor with Introduction. Dimensions in Black Art: African, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-American Art at CSU. Cleveland: Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University. Catalog which accompanies permanent collection. 56 pp.

1975.Editor with Introduction. Visions of Africa: An Exhibition of Prints and Textiles by Nigerian Artists. Cleveland: Cleveland State University. 15 pp.

PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES):

In Preparation.“The Africans (Siddis) of India: Histories, Cultures, and Arts,” Kwasi Konadu, ed.,The Worlds of Slavery: Global African Perspectives (submitted to University of Rochester Press).

In Press.“Sensiotics: Senses in Understandings of Material Culture, History, and the Arts,” Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture. Oxford University Press. [expected 2017, 8000 words]

In Press.“Incarner le savoir: le rôle des sens dans la compréhension de l’art, de la culture et de l’histoire,» [For anthopology journal, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris, France.]

In Press.Essay and eight catalogue entries for African Masterpieces at the Newark Museum [expected in 2017].

2017.Co-author/editor (with C. Daniel Dawson), “Posse Praise Poem for Robert Farris Thompson,” African Arts, 50th Anniversary issue devoted to “Elders and Ancestors,” pp. 62-81.

2017.“Spirit in the Art of Carlos Luna,” Catalogue essay for the Cuban artist Carlos Luna: The Green Machine.

2017.“Mami Wata,” catalogue essay for Musee Quai Branly-Paris exhibition,L'Afrique desRoutes dans l'Histoire(Paris: Musee Quai Branly), pp. 228-232.

2016.

[A revised excerpt of “Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Egungun Masquerades Among the Yoruba” in Homegoings, Crossings, and Passings: Life and Death in the African Diaspora, edited by Regennia Williams, 175–206. NJ: Africa World Press, 2011 – with 10-minute video of Egungun performances filmed by author in 1986.]

2016.“Ifa: Visual and Sensorial Aspects,” inIfá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance

Olupona, J. and R. A. Abiodun, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 325-339.

2015.“Enramada: Bringing People Together,” Catalogue essay for Dominican artist Charo Oquet and her performance project Arrayanos about Haitian/Dominican immigration justice.

2015.“What’s in a Name?” in Squad: The Calling of the Common Hero – Photography by Faisal Abdu’Allah, Chazen Museum of Art, pp. 5-6.

2015.Yoruba entries for Scheller Collection catalogue, Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture, de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, Munich: Prestel and Delmonico Books, pp. 86-89.

2015.“Mami Wata,” Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, Joseph Miller, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 316-319.

2014.“Art and Offerings for Gods, Ancestors, and Guests,” in L’Art de Manger: Rites et Traditions en Afrique, Insulinde, et Oceanie, exhibition catalogue, Musee Dapper, Paris: Editions Dapper, pp. 108-127, 393.

2014.“Foreword,” Ere Yoruba: Quintessential Art by Yoruba Master Carvers by Craig D. Fashoro. Canada: Artbookbindery, pp. vii-viii.

2013.“Mami Wata -- Sacred African Water Spirit,” Mermaids, 25, pp. 36-37.

2013.“Senses and Form-Words: Exploring Yoruba Art,” Refined Eye, Passionate Heart:African Art from the Leslie Sacks Collection. Los Angeles: SKIRA, pp. 130-177.

2013.“Beads, Body-Minds, and the Senses,” essay for the catalogue The Beaded Prayers Project by Sonya Clark. Doha, State of Qatar: Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, pp. 10-15.

2013.“Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Artsin Africa,” in Companion to Modern African Art, Salami, G. and M. Visona, eds.NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp.23-50. [lead article]

2013.“Africa in New Orleans: Creole Complexities in Racist America,” African Arts, 46, 2, Summer, pp. 86-87.

2013.“Departures,” in Air, Land, Seed, eCatalogue for Venice Biennale exhibition, May 27-June 3, p. 26.

2013.“Ocean Portfolio/Mami Wata: Art for Water Spirits in Africa,” World Ocean Journal, Volume 1, Inaugural Issue, pp. 26-31.

2013.“Foreword” – Vodun, Voodoo, Vodou: Spirits (book and film) by Henning Christoph. Leipzig, Germany, pp. 4-7.

2013.“India Bibliography,” (with Beheroze Shroff and Alicia Cannizzio), African Arts, 46, 1, Spring, pp. 26-29.

2013.“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,” African Arts, 46, 1, Spring, pp. cover, 6-17.

2012.Foreword, catalogue for the Return of ONA exhibition, Watersworth Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, October 20-November 5, 2012.

2012.“Forever Modern: Mami Wata Visual Culture and History in Africa,” in The Visual Culture Reader (3rd Ed.), edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, pp.384-397.

2012.“Beauteous Beast: The Water Deity Mami Wata in Africa,” in Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, A. Mittman and P. Dendle, eds. (Farnham, Surrey-UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.), pp.77-101.

2012.“Creating Mami Wata: An Interactive, Sensory Exhibition,” Museum Anthropology (UK), Volume 35, 1, pp. 49-57.

2011-12.Images of the African Diaspora,” UW Digital Collections Center (900 images and captions) (

2011.“Whirling Cloth, Breeze of Blessing: Egungun Masquerades among the Yoruba,” in Homegoings, Regennia Williams, ed. NJ: Africa World Press, pp.175-206.

2011.Five catalogue entries, film, and photographs of Yoruba objects and performances, Ancestors of Congo Square, William Fagaley, ed. (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art and Scala Publishers), pp. 164, 166, 168, 178, 180, 184, 186, 192, 196, 198, 200.

2011.“The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World,” in Africana Heritage, NYPL, Volume 11, 2, pp. 6-7.

2010. “The Odyssey of an Image and Its Meanings: Snake Charmer, Mami Wata, and Santa Marta la Dominadora,” Actualidad de las Tradiciones Espirituales y Culturales Africanas en el Caribe y Latinoamerica (Primer y Segundo Simposio). San Juan and Loiza, PR: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe y Instituto de las Tradiciones Afrocaribenas (edited by Dra. Maria Elba Torres Munoz, Dra. Marta Moreno Vega, and Monica Cortes), pp. 95-120.

2010.“African Art and the Senses,” (condensed version of my 2005 First Word article “Senses in Understandings of Art” in African Arts).

2010.“Patchwork Quilts of Africans (Siddis) of India,” in The Global AfricaProject (NY/Munich: Prestel & Museum of Arts and Design), pp. 179, 240.

2010.“Stitching History: Siddi Patchwork Quilts,” Hand/Eye Magazine, July 15. [revised version of 2005 brochure]

2010.“Evocative Form,” 10,000 Years of Beauty-Classical Age/Confrontations (Paris: Editions-Babylone), pp. 128-131. [Chinese edition to be published in 2011]

2009.“Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria,” (with Enid Schildkrout), Tribal Art, Autumn (XIII, 4, number 53), pp.76-85.

2009.“Tasting Cultures: The Art of African/American Foodways,” (with Sarah K. Khan), brochure for the exhibition at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, SC. 5 pp.

2009.“Material, Sensorial Religion: The Case of Mami Wata,” in Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief (Amsterdam) 5, 2, Summer, pp.226-229. [with responses from Peter Probst and Mattijs van de Port].

2009.“Cloche” and “Masque Gelede” in Musee Quai Branly-La Collection (Paris: Editions SkiraFlammarion), pp. 40-41, 72-73.

2008.“Establishing the Field,” Interview with Nancy Marie Mithlo as part of Visiting: Conversations on Curatorial Practice and Native North American Art. The American Indian Curatorial Practice (AICP) symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 25-27 (Funded by the Ford Foundation).

2008.“Thomas Moulero: Historian of Gelede,” ejournal (

2008."Arts and Agency: Patchwork Quilts and Quilting Cooperative of Siddis of Northern Karnataka, India," in TADIA: The African Diaspora in Asia, Kiran Kamal Prasad and Jean-Pierre Angenot, eds. Bangalore: Jana Jagrati Prakashana, pp. 269-276.

2008.“Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas: Exhibition Preview,” African Arts, 4, 2, Summer 2008, pp.60-83.

2006.“Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and other Water Spirits in Africa,” (with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk) in Music of the Sirens, Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 294-316.

2006.“La Encantadora de Serpientes se Convierte en Mami Wata en Africa,” NERTA 9 – Literaturas Exoticas (La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands), pp. 20-22.

2005.“Stitching History: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,” brochure accompanying exhibition in the Design Gallery, UW-Madison, August 26-September 25, 2pp.

2005.“Senses in Understandings of Art,” First Word, African Arts, 38, 2, Summer, pp.1, 4, 6, 88, 96.

2005.“Signs of Time, Shapes of Thought: The Contributions of Art History and Visual Culture to Historical Methods in Africa,” in Writing African History: Methods and Sources, John E. Phillips, ed. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, pp.329-347.

2005.“About,” Foreword for Kiran Kamal Prasad, In Search of an Identity: An Ethnographic Study of the Siddis in Karnataka (Bangalore: Jana Jagrati Prakashana), p.vii.

2004.“A Spectacle of Miracles: The Yoruba Forest Spirit Mask (Aroni),” and “A Chorus of Visual Praise Offerings: A Yoruba Staff (ose Shango),” catalogue entries for See the Music, Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum, Fred Lamp, ed. Baltimore and Munich: The Baltimore Museum of Art and Prestel Verlag, pp 144-5, 154-55.

2004.“Aliens and Homelands: Identity, Agency, and the Arts among the Siddis of Uttara Kannada,” in Sidis and Scholars: Essays on African Indians, eds. Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Edward Alpers (New Delhi: Rainbow Publishers), pp.140-158.

2003.“Coiffures chez Les Yoruba/Yoruba Hairstyles and Headdresses,” in Parures de Tete/Hairstyles and Headdresses. Ed. Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau. (Paris: Editions Dapper), pp. 171-203, 356-7.

2002.”Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag[in]ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas,” in Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, eds. P. Landau and D. Kaspin. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.193-211.

2002.“Celebrating Water Spirits: Influence, Confluence, and Difference in Ijebu-Yoruba and Delta Masquerades,” in Ways of the River: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History), pp. 193-215, 353.

2001.Common Ties: Dots, Dashes, Beads, Beauty (Madison: Wisconsin Union Gallery). 10 pp.

2001.“Crowning Glories: Hair, Head, Style, and Substance in Yoruba Culture,” in Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories, eds. Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 227-36.

2000.“Terre et Tonnerre: L’Art Yoruba destine aux Ancestres et aux Dieux,” [“Of Earth, Ancestors, and Gods: Yoruba Art for Osugbo and Sango”] in Arts d’Afrique (Paris: Dapper Museum and Gallimard), pp. 49-65, 324-5.

2000.“Beads: Body and Soul,” Muse, October, pp. 10-17.

2000.“Memory and Agency: Bantu and Yoruba Arts in Brazilian Culture,” in Diaspora and Visual Culture, ed. N. Mirzoeff (London: Routledge), pp. 241-253.

1999."Art History, Agency & Identity: Yoruba Transcultural Currents in the Making of Black Brazil," in Black Brazil: Culture, Identity, and Social Mobilization. UCLA Latin American Center Publications, pp. 143-174. [Reprinted in The Afro-Brazilian Mind, 2007]

1999.“Cultura Visual-Conceitos,” Cultura Visual (EBA-Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), 1, 1, pp. 19-20.

1998."Costume in African Traditions," International Encyclopedia of Dance. Vol 2. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, pp. 209-213.

1998. "Gelede: Masking for Our Mothers among Yoruba-Speaking Peoples," Art and Life in Africa -- CD-ROM Project, Christopher D. Roy, ed. (Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa).

1997.Entries on eight Afro-Brazilian and African artists in St. James Guide to Black Artists, Thomas Riggs, ed. Detroit: St. James Press.

1997."Ogun and Mind/Body Potentiality: Yoruba Scarification and Painting Traditions in Africa and the Americas," (with John Mason) in S. Barnes, ed. Africa’s Ogun (2nd rev. ed.), pp. 332-352.

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1997.Essay and catalog entries for Arts du Nigeria. Paris: Reunion des Musées Nationaux, pp.75-84, 258-270.

1996."Aesthetic Evaluations (African)," and "Yoruba," The Dictionary of Art. London: Macmillan, Vol. 1, pp. 235-40, Vol. 33, pp. 553-60. [“Yoruba,” in Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary of Art– Sample Articles, pp. 95-102.]

1996."Pasts as Prologues: Empowering African Cultural Institutions," in P. Schmidt and R. McIntosh, eds. Plundering Africa’s Past. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 110-124.

1996."Signifyin' Saints: Sign, Substance & Subversion in Afro-Brazilian Art," in A. Lindsay, ed. Santeria Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Art. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 263-289.

1996."Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self," in M. J. Arnoldi, C. M. Geary, and K. Hardin, eds. African Material Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 308-333.

1995."Transformation through Cloth: An Egungun Costume of the Yoruba," (with Mary Ann Fitzgerald and Moyo Okediji) African Arts, 28, 2, Spring, pp. 54-57.

1995."Yoruba Beadwork: Beauty and Brightness," Faces, September, pp.31-37.

1995.Catalogue entries of Yoruba objects in Africa: Art of a Continent. London: Royal Academy of Art, pp. 414, 416-417.

1994."Form-words and Senses in Understandings of Art," in Visions of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art at UCLA. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, pp. 64-79.

1993."L'Art d'Ile-Ife: Sources et Significations du Realisme," Arts d’Afrique Noire, (Paris), Automne, pp. 41-51.

1993."Image and Indeterminacy: The Significances of Elephants and Ivory among the Yoruba,": in D. Ross, ed. Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, pp. 186-207.

1992."Contested Realities: Inventions of Art and Authenticity," African Arts, 25, 4, pp. 24-28.

1991."Head of a King," and "Mother and Child," in M. Gibbons and J.Zuppan, eds. Interpretations. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, pp. 41-42.

1991."Headdress of a Maiden," and "Female Mask," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 78, 3, June, pp. 113-114.

1991."September Artwork of the Month" [4 African objects], Artscene, vol. 7, no. 4, September/October, 1p.

1990."Women in Yoruba Art," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday, October 28, 1990, pp. lC-4C.

1990."African Art Studies Today," in E. Lifschitz, ed. African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 29-62.

1990."Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self," (Abstract) in Material Culture in Africa, proceedings of the International Conference held at Bellagio, Italy, May 19-23, 1988, pp. 69-71.

1989."Gelede mask of a Shango Devotee," catalog entry for an exhibition at the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 1989.

1989."The Meaning of Oshugbo Art: A Reappraisal," in B. Engelbrecht and B. Gardi, eds. Man does not go Naked: Textilien und Handwerk aus Afrikanishen und Anderen Landern, pp. 151-174. Volume 29, Basler Beitrage zur Ethnologie. (Invited contribution to a work honoring Renee Boser-Sarivaxiavanis)

1989."Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (Exhibition Preview)," (with John Pemberton and Rowland Abiodun),African Arts, 23, 1, pp. 68-77, 104.

1989."Art or Accident: Yoruba Body Artists and Their Deity Ogun," in S. Barnes, ed. Africa’s Ogun: Old World and New. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 235-260.