2008 Exhibition
Venus Envy Juror & Curator: Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris
Ms. Lewis-Harris is the The Director of Center of Human Origin and
Cultural Diversity at University of Missouri St. Louis. She holds
the title of Lecturer in both Anthropology and the College of Education.
Ms. Lewis-Harris has her Master's in Anthropology from Washington University,
and is presently completing a doctorate in cultural anthropology.
She lived and worked in Liberia, West Africa for over two years, and has
traveled in West and North Africa. In addition, she has traveled extensively
in the Pacific with an emphasis on Papua New Guinea.
Ms. Lewis-Harris has a long history of involvement in the visual arts,
as both an artist and a consultant. As Assistant Curator of the Arts of Africa,
Oceania, and the Americas, she curated several exhibitions at the Saint Louis
Art Museum,including Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art, Jacob Lawrence:
The Migration Series,Visions of the People, Ewe Textiles, Art of Papua New
Guinea,Masterpieces of Central Africa,African Textiles, and the reinstallation of
the museum's African and Pacific galleries. For the St. Louis Artists' Guild, she
curated St. Louis Collects African Art. She has presented numerous talks and
workshops on the art and culture of Sub-Saharan Africa.In 1996, she wrote the
cover essay Djenne Sculptures, the first time African Sculpture was featured on
the cover of the Journal of American Medical Association.Recent publications
include the St. Louis Art Museum's Winter Bulletin, Art of the Papuan Gulf,
numerous articles on art and culture in the Pacific, inclusion in two
anthologies on Pacific Art and Culture, and The Great Kings and Queens of Africa.
Ms. Lewis-Harris will choose 3 National Artists & 15 local artist for the show
Contact April Seager at 314/852-7620 or sweetlucidity@sbcglobal.net
This year the Venus Envy will Show will hang for 1 month at
Mad Art Gallery after the Event.
