Project for the Advanced Study of Art and Life in Africa (PASALA)

Christopher Roy, Professor
christopher-roy@uiowa.edu
Art and Art History
138 Art Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242

The Project for the Advanced Study of Art and Life in Africa (PASALA) is an interdisciplinary program of fellowships, scholarships, conferences and publications focused on the visual arts of Africa. Assets for research at Iowa include two internationally recognized faculty in African studies, a research library with extensive holdings on Africa, and the Stanley Collection of African Art, one of the largest and most complete collections of African sculpture and other plastic arts at any university in America. The collection has been published in Art and Life in Africa: Selections from the Stanley Collection by Christopher D. Roy (Iowa City, 1985). PASALA has hosted international Stanley Conferences on African Art since 1979, and Stanley Graduate Student Conferences on African Art that coincide. It also co-sponsored the Ninth Triennial Symposium on African Art in 1992. Exhibitions of African Art at The University of Iowa Museum of Art are organized in conjunction with the conferences. The proceedings of the Stanley Conferences are published as Iowa Studies in African Art. PASALA also supports travel by African museum professionals to The University of Iowa Museum of Art to study the Stanley Collection and to participate in workshops on museum administration, collections management, and basic research on African art. It lends support to the Art and Life in Africa CD-ROM project as well. Students who have received Ph.D.s teach at University of Illinois, University of Kansas, University of Arizona and are curators at Dartmouth College, Birmingham Alabama Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Stanford University Art Center.

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