Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture 2019: Come to your Senses! Understanding Arts Everywhere … and the Arts of Yoruba People in Particular

Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture 2019: Come to your Senses! Understanding Arts Everywhere … and the Arts of Yoruba People in Particular

Henry John Drewal (Emeritus Professor in African Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Departments of Art History & Afro-American Studies)

This presentation invites you to come to your sense-abilities in your engagements with arts. We feel and think with our body-mind. I explore this idea with a focus on the arts of the Yoruba in West Africa that have relevance universally.