Horse Rider in African Art

George Chemeche is an artist, author and curator of tribal art. He has had numerous individual exhibitions, and his work is featured in several museums and galleries, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (New York), the Everson Museum of Art (New York), the Denver Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art and the Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama), as well as in a number of private collections. He edited and co-wrote, with John Pemberton III, Ibeji: The Cult of Yoruba Twins (2008), and was a curator for the related exhibition at New York's Museum for Africa Art, Doubly Blessed: The Ibeji Twins of Nigeria. Mary Jo Arnoldi is Curator for African Ethnology and Arts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Trained in anthropolgy and art history, she has been conducting research in Mali since 1978 and has published widely on the country's cultural heritage, social life and history. She has curated several exhibitions, including the National Museum of Natural History's African Voices (permanent exhibition). He is a a longtime resident of the Chelsea Hotel, the historic NYC hotel and landmarkthat has been home to Bob Dylan, Bukowski, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith and Leonard Cohen. Kate Ezra is the Nolen Curator of Academic Affairs at the Yale University Art Gallery. Previously, she has been Professor of Art History at Columbia College, Chicago, and Associate Curator of African Art at the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions on African art and written numerous accompanying exhibition catalogues, including A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture. Bernard de Grunne has been an antiques dealer, specializing in fine tribal arts, since 1996, having first attained a Ph.D.in History of Art from Yale University (1987). He previously worked as as Director of Tribal Art at Sotheby's in New York. He has written expensively on African art and curated several exhibitions. John Pemberton III has written and edited countless texts concerning African art, including Yoruba: Nina Centuries of African Art and Thought (1989) and Insight and Artistry in African Divination (2000). In 2006, he was awarded an Emeritus Fellowship (Religion and African Stdies, Amherst College) from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.