ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, promotes greater understanding of African material and expressive culture in all its many forms, and encourages contact and collaboration with African and Diaspora artists and scholars.

The 14th Triennial Symposium on African Art was held March 28-April 1, 2007 at University of Florida, Gainesville.

The theme of the 2007 Triennial Symposium on African Art emphasized the place of African expressive arts in global contexts, encouraging panels and papers that address Africa's international and trans-cultural reach. In selecting this theme, we sought to foreground the ways in which Africa arts in all media draw from and contribute to global histories, cultures, and aesthetics. These global connections are particularly dramatic in the growing field of contemporary African art, in which artists study, exhibit, sell their work, and live all over the world. We also sought to draw attention to scholarship that is animating "traditional" practices, placing longstanding forms, techniques, and beliefs within the historical networks out of which they emerged. Details

The 15th Triennial Symposium on African Art is presently under development. Please check back to this page as information becomes available.

Pictured above left: Scrolls of the Ancestor #IV; Wosene Worke Kosrof, Ethiopian, born 1950; 1994, Acrylic on canvas, 40 1/2 x 39 in. (102.9 x 99.1 cm); Gift of Drs. Israel and Michaela Samuelly, In honor of Nancy P. Mendenhall

Roy Sieber
Dissertation Award
The Roy Sieber Dissertation Award is granted to the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation on some aspect of African and/or African Diaspora art, in any discipline. Details

Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award
The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award honors publications for excellence in scholarship on the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora. Details