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Joyce M. Youmans <joyceyoumans@yahoo.com> independent scholar African art historiography; interrelationships between American culture in the 1960s, Minimalism, and African art; the history of the Other within the context of colonialism and without (including psychiatric patients, serial murderers, and zombies [real and imagined]); aesthetics and the visual arts, particularly phenomenology and also the ways by which alterity may influence the art viewing process |
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| H-Net Positions: | Former H-Net Staff Editor |
| List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Africa Reviewer for H-AfrArts |
| Reviews: | Mami Wata Reconsidered and Redefined From Biography to Ghost Story: The Search for Sara Baartman |
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Bio: Degrees: Master of Arts degree in Art History, University of Kansas Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History with a cognate area in French and a minor in History, University of Missouri-Kansas City Museum experience: 2002-2005 Assistant Curator of African Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 1999-2002 Curatorial Assistant for African, Oceanic, and American Indian Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 1994-1999 Research Assistant for African, Oceanic, and American Indian Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Professional experience: 2008-2010 Senior Editor and Art Writer for the award-winning Atlanta-based visual arts website BurnAway (http://burnaway.org) 1995-present Curator of a private collection of African art, Shawnee Mission, KS Teaching experience: 2002-03 Central African Art History, West African Art History, University of Kansas Volunteer work: 2008-present Board Member and Chief Newsletter Editor for the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Exhibitions: 2001-2005 Curator. Program for the permanent exhibition of African art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Installed in 2007. 2002-2003 Curator. The Nelson-Atkins venue of the traveling exhibition Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa. 1999-2000 Curator. Another Africa, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Selected publications: 2004 Fourteen articles in Claude J. Summers, ed., The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts. Berkeley: Cleis Press. 2002 Five object entries in Ezio Bassani, et al., The Power of Form: African Art from the Horstmann Collection. Milan: Skira Editore. 2002 Six artist entries in Sara and Tom Pendergast, eds., Contemporary Artists. Detroit: St. James Press. 2000 "African Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art." African Arts 33.4 (winter): 40-61, 94. |
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