Marie Yvonne Curtis

Marie Yvonne Curtis is a historian and holds a PhD in Ethno-Aesthetics from Universite de Paris 1 Sorbonne, where she presented her thesis, The Art of the Nalu and Baga of Guinea: A Comparative Approach, in January 1997. Since 2001 she has been actively involved in writing summaries and articles on the most emblematic objects in Baga art for various institutions, including the Pavillon des Sessions at the Louvre, the Menil Collection in Houston, and the African Art Institute in Chicago. She was...See more

Marie Yvonne Curtis is a historian and holds a PhD in Ethno-Aesthetics from Universite de Paris 1 Sorbonne, where she presented her thesis, The Art of the Nalu and Baga of Guinea: A Comparative Approach, in January 1997. Since 2001 she has been actively involved in writing summaries and articles on the most emblematic objects in Baga art for various institutions, including the Pavillon des Sessions at the Louvre, the Menil Collection in Houston, and the African Art Institute in Chicago. She was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant in 2007 to study at the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, DC, on the topic of Theorising Cultural Heritage, especially at the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of African Art, and the National Museum of Natural History, where she is an associate researcher in the Anthropology Section. From 2008-11, she took part in fieldwork among the Baga with the Yale University Museum of Art (African Section) and worked with other anthropologists studying the Baga (Ramon Sarro from Oxford University). Marie Yvonne Curtis has been a university lecturer and researcher at Laboratoire d'analyse socio anthropologique de Guinee (LASAG) since 2014-15. See less