Africa

United States of America

Curator

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

kreamerc@nmafa.si.edu

National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution
950 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, D.C. 20560-0708 USA

phone: (202) 357-4600, ext. 236
fax: (202) 357-4879

Ghana

Research interests: African art history; museum anthropology; art and
ritual; gender; the creativity of work.

Associations: African Studies Association; Arts Council of the African
Studies Association; College Art Association; American Anthropological
Association; American Association of Museums.

(Forthcoming 2002)

"Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle
Exhibition, Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade." Forthcoming in
The Atlantic Slave Trade in African and Diaspora Memory, edited by Ralph
Austen. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press.

"Objects as Envoys: Introduction." In Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery
and Diplomacy in Madagascar (edited by Christine Mullen Kreamer and Sarah
Fee). Seattle: University of Washington Press and Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC.

"We Drink with One Calabash and One Heart: Beer and Pottery Production
among the Moba of Northern Togo." Forthcoming, Proceedings from the May
1996 Material Culture Conference, "Fermented and Distilled: The Material
Culture of Alcoholic Beverages." Yale University and Smithsonian
Institution.

2001 "African Voices: Reflections on Process, Intentions, and
Strategies," African Arts 35 (2). Co-authored with Mary Jo Arnoldi and
Michael Mason.

2000 "Money, Power and Gender: Some Social and Economic Factors in Moba
Male and Female Pottery Traditions (Northern Togo." In Clay and Fire:
Pottery in Africa, Christopher D. Roy (editor). Iowa Studies in African
Art, Volume IV (pp. 189-212). Iowa City: School of Art and Art History,
University of Iowa.

2000 "Mixed Media," The Dictionary of Art. London: MacMillan. (1997)
Revised.

2000 "The Art of Togo," The Dictionary of Art. London: MacMillan.
(1997) Revised.

1998 "Togo." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Charles Scribner's
Sons, NY.

1997 "African Voices." Museum News (Nov/Dec 1997): 50-55.

1995 "Power and Transformation: Initiation Rites of the Moba (Northern
Togo)." Africa 65 (1): 58-78.

1995 Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head. Los
Angeles: Regents of the University of California. Co-authored with Mary
Jo Arnoldi.

1994 A Life Well Lived: The Coffins of Kane Quaye in Social and Cultural
Context. Exhibition catalogue essay. Kansas City: University of
Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art.

1992 Museums and Communities. Co-edited with Ivan Karp and Steven D.
Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

1992 "Defining Communities Through Exhibiting and Collecting," in Museums
and Communities, edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven
D. Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

1989 Wild Spirits, Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness. New
York: The Center for African Art (co-published with the University of
Washington Press, Seattle). Co-authored with Martha Anderson.

Africa ; art history ; museum anthropology ; art ; ritual ; gender ; creativity.