Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

6/1/1979 - 12/31/1980

Funding Totals

$53,056.00 (approved)
$53,056.00 (awarded)


The Aesthetics of Power: Secret Societies of the Western Guinea Coast of Africa

FAIN: GM-046779-79

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (San Francisco, CA 94118-4502)
Thomas Seligman (Project Director: June 1979 to present)

To plan a major interpretive exhibition, publication, and variety of public programs focusing on the art produced and used by the male and female secret societies of the Western Guinea Coast of Africa.