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Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 09:37

Museum's anthropology curator seeks to express science through artwork

Rocky Mountain News

"When Robert Pickering left the post of chairman of the anthropology department, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science began a search that netted three candidates for his replacement. One of the things that stood out in her background was that she wanted to express her science through her artwork. It was something new and different for us."

During the November conference of the American Association of Anthropology, Ella Maria Ray will be on a panel dealing with visual arts and ethnographic fieldwork, where she and three peers will present their artwork for discussion.

And she's working on an ethnographic novel - Standing in the Lion's Shadow - outlining via fictional characters her work in Jamaica. Beginning in the late 1980s, she conducted extensive field work there to study the role of female members of the Rastafari community. >> continue


SEE ALSO:
Ella Maria Ray's homepage on art and anthropology

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