LaGamma, Alisa
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Name (Latin)
LaGamma, Alisa
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Art, African
Masks, African
Occupation
Art museum curators
Authors
Museum curators
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 4, 2017Staff list (Alisa LaGamma, Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas)
- Observer website, Met's Africa department head, Julie Jones, to retire, Alisa LaGamma named as replacement, 01/09/13, viewed October 22, 2019(Alisa LaGamma, a curator in the department who is a specialist in African art, will become curator in charge of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; born in Lubumbashi, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and spent formative years in the Ivory Coast, Togo, Senegal, Nigeria, and South Africa as the daughter of a U.S. Foreign Service officer; undergraduate degree in art history from the University of Virginia; M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University; her doctoral research in Central Africa explored performance of a celebrated mask form)
- The art of the Punu mukudj masquerade, 1995:t.p. (Alisa LaGamma)