Alisa LaGamma

Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1995 for a dissertation titled "The Art of the Punu Mukudj Masquerade: Portrait of an Equatorial Society", for which she carried out a year of fieldwork in southern Gabon.

In 1998, she was a guest editor for "African Arts" journal.

In 2012, she received the Iris Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the Bard Graduate Center in recognition of her contribution to rethinking the history of sub-Saharan African art and culture.

She curated the exhibition "Kongo: Power and Majesty". Provided by Wikipedia
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    The essential art of African textiles : design without end / Alisa LaGamma and Christine Giuntini.
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    Kongo : power and majesty / Alisa Lagamma ; with contributions by Josiah Blackmore, Christine Giuntini, James Green, Ellen G. Howe, Phyllis M. Martin, Adriana Rizzo, John K. Thornton, and Kristen Windmuller-Luna.
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    Art and oracle : African art and rituals of divination / Alisa LaGamma with an essay by John Pemberton.
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    Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary / edited by Alisa LaGamma ; with contributions by Barbara Boehm [and others].
    Published 2007
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