Website Records, 2013-2016

Object Details

Notes: Electronic List in accession file.; Folder List in accession file.; For a description of the record series of which these materials form a part, refer to the "Forms part of" above.
Organization: Unarranged
Summary: This accession consists of two websites and one blog maintained by the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA). NMAfA's primary website, crawled November 19, 2015, includes visitor information, collections information, online exhibitions, educational activities, and related information. This accession does not include detailed collections information and, due to technical issues, some features of this crawled website may not function properly. The "Earth Matters... For Kids: Land as Materials and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa" website, crawled November 9, 2015, provides information about a tree banding program for students developed in association with the exhibition "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa." The program was a collaboration with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Gabon, Casey Trees, and the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. The "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa" blog, crawled January 29, 2016, is associated with an exhibition of the same name at NMAfA which was on view from February 22, 2013, through April 23, 2014. The blog explores the ways in which African artists and communities mediate their relationship with the land upon which they live, work, and frame their days. The blog launched in March 2013 and has been inactive since April 2014. Materials are in electronic format.
Repository Loc.: Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Data Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Date: 2013; 2013-2016

Local number: SIA Acc. 16-205

Creator: National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Uniform title: Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa (Blog); Earth Matters... For Kids: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa (Website)
Subject: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Casey Trees; Public Schools of the District of Columbia; Lines, Marks, and Drawings: Through the Lens of Roger Ballen (Online exhibition); African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting (Online exhibition); African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection (Online exhibition); Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa (Online exhibition); Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa (Exhibition) (2013-2014: Washington, D.C.); African Cosmos: Stellar Arts (Online exhibition); Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley (Online exhibition); Artists in Dialogue: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira (Online exhibition); Brave New World (Online exhibition); Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art (Online exhibition); The Healing Power of Art: Works of Art by Haitian Children after the Earthquake (Online exhibition); Paul Emmanuel: Transitions (Online exhibition); Yinka Shonibare MBE (Online exhibition); Artful Animals (Online exhibition); Lalla Essaydi: Revisions (Online exhibition); Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas (Online exhibition); Artists in Dialogue: António Ole and Aimé Mpane (Online exhibition); El Anatsui: Gawu (Online exhibition); TxtStyles/Fashioning Identity (Online exhibition); Treasures 2008 (Online exhibition); Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection) (Online exhibition); The Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World (Online exhibition); Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (Online exhibition); Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art (Online exhibition); First Look: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection (Online exhibition); African Gold: Selections from the Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Online exhibition); BIG|small (Online exhibition); insights (Online exhibition); African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection (Online exhibition); Urhobo: Where Gods and Mortals Meet Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art (Online exhibition); Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art (Online exhibition); Treasures (Online exhibition); Playful Performers (Online exhibition); The Fabric of Moroccan Life (Online exhibition); Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora (Online exhibition); Journeys and Destinations: African Artists on the Move (Online exhibition); Ethiopian Icons: Faith and Science (Online exhibition); In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 (Online exhibition); A Personal Journey: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection (Online exhibition); Gifts and Blessings: Textile Arts of Madagascar (Online exhibition); In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon (Online exhibition); Beautiful Bodies: Form and Decoration of African Pottery (Online exhibition); Identity of the Sacred: Two Nigerian Shrine Figures (Online exhibition); Chant Avedissian: A Contemporary Artist of Egypt (Online exhibition); Encounters with the Contemporary (Online exhibition); Audible Artworks: Selected African Musical Instruments (Online exhibition); The Artistry of African Currency (Online exhibition); Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa (Online exhibition); A Concrete Vision: Oshogbo Art in the 1960s (Online exhibition); Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity (Online exhibition); Claiming Art/Reclaiming Space: Post-Apartheid Art from South Africa (Online exhibition); Sokari Douglas Camp: Church Ede, A Tribute to Her Father (Online exhibition); Baule: African Art/Western Eyes (Online exhibition); South Africa 1936-1949: Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee (Online exhibition); New Acquisitions: Gifts from the Lawrence Gussman Collection (Online exhibition); African Forms in the Furniture of Pierre Legrain (Online exhibition); Olowe of Ise: A Yoruba Sculptor to Kings (Online exhibition); A Spiral of History (Online exhibition); The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group (Online exhibition); The Art of the Personal Object (Online exhibition); Artists' Books and Africa (Online exhibition); Chief S.O. Alonge: Photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria (Online exhibition); The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists (Online exhibition); Africa ReViewed: The Photographic Legacy of Eliot Elisofon (Online exhibition); Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone (Online exhibition); Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection (Online exhibition)

Type: Electronic records; Collection descriptions

Place: Gabon

See more items in: Website Records 2009-2018 [National Museum of African Art (U.S.)]

Topic: Web sites; Blogs; Museums--Public relations; Exhibitions; Art, African; Art museums; Museums--Collection management; Museums--Educational aspects; Environmental sciences

Record ID: siris_arc_384414

Usage: CC0