Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

9/1/1989 - 5/31/1990

Funding Totals

$15,843.00 (approved)
$15,843.00 (awarded)


The Yoruba Legacy in the Americas: Understanding an African Artistic Tradition in its New World Setting

FAIN: GP-21534-89

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60603-6488)
Ramona M. Austin (Project Director: March 1989 to September 1990)

To support a symposium that will examine the continuing influence in the Americas, principally among African-American and Hispanic communities, of the art, thought, and religious rituals of Nigeria's Yoruba people.