Africa

United States of America

Assistant Professor

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

malcolrx@jmu.edu

Art of Africa, Africa America, and the Diaspora
Department of Art and Art History
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22802 USA

Cameroon

Education:

May 1999 M.A., Art History, Department of Art and Art History,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Thesis: John Walker: The
Dialectic of Opposites.
December 1996 B.F.A., Painting, Kansas City Art Institute

Ph.D. Dissertation: "A Child of Its Time: Bangwa Influences in the Work of
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner."

My field of interest is the African influences in the New World. I use three
academic disciplines to teach art of the African Diaspora; art history,
history, and anthropology. Religion is an inherent component of all three
disciplines.

When teaching and learning about African art these disciplines
have to be used to reach an appropriate cultural context. Westerners
understand their own cultural elements through personal experience.
However, when learning about another culture we have to educate the student
in all facets of these elements to understand the art. (...)

2002 "Kirchner and the Bangwa Queen," Transatlantic Studies
Conference, Dundee University and Baylor University, Dundee, Scotland,
July 2002.

2002 "A Child of Its Time: Bangwa Influences in the Work
of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner", 2nd Annual Harvard Conference on
International History, Spring 2002

2001 "Imagination and Vision", International Voice, Spring 2001,
University of Missouri-Kansas City

2000 Web Site: Rachel Malcolm-Woods Interdisciplinary Scholar,
Ethnographic Research in Cote d'Ivoire: "Visiting the Baule, Senufo and Dan
Cultures" (http://www.umkc.edu/is/mts/woods/) and 10 videos of Divinations and
Dances.

2000 Cover and four paintings with a narrative, in Number One: Literary
Journal for UMKC. University of Missouri Press, Kansas City.

2000 Book Cover: House of Bishops. A chronology of the Episcopal Bishops
of the Diocese of West Missouri.

1998- Artist’s Statement, Five Paintings and Curriculum Vitae, in
Leonardo Arts and Sciences Journal: Virtual Africa
(http:// www.cyberworkers.com/Leonardo/Africa/ponts/woods

1998 "The Leedy-Volkus Summer Show", in Forum Magazine, Kansas
City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri (June issue)

African influences ; New World ; art history ; history ; anthropology ; religion.