Conference Announcement

Triennial Symposium on African Art
Mark your calendars: March 28-April 1, 2007
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

The 14th Triennial Symposium on African Art will be hosted by the University of Florida's College of Fine Arts, School of Art and Art History, Center for African Studies, and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Gainesville is the site for the conference, and the theme will be Global Africa. Robin Poynor and Rebecca Nagy are the Co-Chairs of the conference, and Victoria Rovine is the Program Chair. Susan Cooksey and Carol Thompson have planned Museum Day. Bonnie Bernau, Director of Education at the Harn, and Agnes Leslie, Outreach Director for the Center for African Studies, have organized Outreach Day.

Please remember that you must be a member of ACASA in order to participate in the Triennial. We encourage you to renew your membership now if it has lapsed! Annual membership is based on the calendar year.

ACASA Membership Form

  Left: Mfengu people, South Africa, Young Matron's Dress, Late 19th-early 20th century, Cloth, leather, beads, metal from skirt bottom to top of crown: 63 in., Museum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Art Acquisition Fund.
  Right: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and Cultural Plaza.
  Background: Kuba people, Democratic Republic of Congo; Woman's Skirt (detail); 20th century, Raffia, natural dyes; Estimated: 32 1/2 in. x 19 ft. 8 in. Gift of Rod McGalliard

Scrolls of the Ancestor #IV; Wosene Worke Kosrof, Ethiopian, born 1950; 1994, Acrylic on canvas, 40 1/2 x 39 in. (102.9 x 99.1 cm); Gift of Drs. Israel and Michaela Samuelly, In honor of Nancy P. Mendenhall

This event has been financed in part by a Tourist Development Tax Grant from the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners in conjunction with the Alachua County Tourist Development Council

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