African Art and the Virtual Museum
An Undergraduate Course, University of Virginia
Spring Semester 1996

Last updated Thursday, March 21,1996. Copyright © 1996, Benjamin Caleb Ray

Course Description:

Each student will design an exhibition of African art for presentation on the World Wide Web, incorporating the results of the student's study of African art. The exhibitions will contain an introductory explanation of the exhibit's theme, a map of Africa locating the societies whose art objects are represented, images of selected African art objects, relevant field-context images, descriptive labels, and other explanatory textual materials. The images students will use are taken from collections at the Bayly Museum of the University of Virginia, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, the Hampton University Museum, and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and are used with copyright permission.

Image Collections:

As a participant in the Museum Educational Site Licensing project, the University uses images from the collection of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History for instructional purposes, with certain copyright restrictions. These images are available only for students in the course and may not be published on the Web.

Students enrolled in the course also have access to collections of images shown in class. These images are intended for study and review, and will not be incorporated into the student exhibitions. Access to these collections is controlled by password.

Student Exhibitions