This cultural awakening reveals the depth, complexity, and continuing evolution of artistic practices that have flourished ...

Woodworking is a skill that's difficult to master, but absolutely worth it. Humans have been making things out of wood for ...

among them a botanist who examined its wood, an entomologist who gauged the age of its insect boreholes, and a museum director whose specialty was African art. All “affirmed its venerable age ...

The collection, from board member Ira Brind, will be available at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 2026.

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person.” Hamilton’s 15-foot-tall painting on hand-woven fabric, mounted on a hand ...

David's Woodturning Woodturning - BBQ Wood to Stunning Art Piece Posted: 22 April 2025 | Last updated: 22 April 2025 Watch as I woodturn a stunning mini vase made from South African fire wood ...

Objects integral to daily African life —from snuff bowls and walking canes to portable wooden stools ... ancient buoys from Peru, and art that relates to the world of fishermen, fishing villages ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art just opened “New African Masquerades ... It’s topped by the intricately carved wooden figure of a man sitting on the shoulders of a bare-breasted woman, which ...

The five-day East Africa Art and Culture Festival with the East African countries ... Africa especially for us who are bringing artifacts, pictures, handcrafts and wood carves. The event is a very big ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The Art Institute of Chicago ... he depicts himself at the center of a kind of African imaginary. He’s sitting on a wooden stool that makes references ...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project ... And so, he depicts himself at the center of a kind of African imaginary. He’s sitting on a wooden stool that makes references to West African Ashanti ...

The art of making sundials in Africa is more than a tradition ... sourced from their local environments—most commonly wood, but also stone and metal—to craft sundials. The selection of ...