Henry Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies, recently completed his residency as Visiting Scholar at the Sainsbury Research Unit-University of East Anglia-Norwich-UK.
He soon begins the first phase of a six month Senior Fellowship (Summers 2010 and 2011) at the National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC working on his latest book and exhibition projects.
The book project is on art and the senses, and the other is a major traveling exhibition of African art in iron tentatively called "Striking Iron."
The exhibition entitled "Kingdom of Ife: Ancient Art from Africa" —which he wrote the catalogue essay — is presently at the British Museum-London (closing July 6) and will begin its US tour at the Houston Museum of Art in September before going to Virginia, Indiana, and New York.
Drewal's exhibition "Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas" will open at Stanford University in August and remain on view until January 2011.