Richard
Kempshall
Meyer,
Sr., a native Peorian,
has avidly pursued a
wide range of collecting interests over several decades. Although
European and American fine and decorative arts have figured among his
acquisitions, his enthusiasm has been chiefly for forms of non-Western
art: American Indian artifacts, Precolumbian ceramics, and traditional
West African sculpture and metalwork. Richard Meyer has shared his
African collection with Central Illinois through substantial gifts of
objects to Lakeview Museum, an institution which he helped establish.
Without Mr. Meyer's generosity, this exhibition would not have been
possible.
William M
. Butler
received his M.A. in art history from Indiana
University
in 1993. He is presently Curator of Art at Lakeview Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Peoria, Illinois. The Lakeview Museum is located at 1125 West Lake
Avenue,
Peoria, IL 61614-5985.
Send e-mail to Lakeview Museum via:
SLS@Bradley.edu
Michael
W.
Conner received his Ph.D. in art history from Indiana
University
in 1991. His dissertation topic was "The Art of the Jere and Maseko
Ngoni
of Malawi, 1818-1964." He has produced two interactive CDs on
collections
of African art. His third will be released June 1995. He is presently an
Instructor of African art history at Indiana University School of
Continuing Studies, Division of Extended Studies, and works as a
freelance
Africanist and Collections consultant. To reach him by mail, write to
him at Indiana University School of Continuing Studies,
Division of Extended Studies, Owen Hall 001,
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5201.
Or send e-mail to him at:
conner@indiana.edu.
Martha
J.
Ehrlich received her Ph.D. in art history from Indiana
University
in 1981. Her dissertation topic was "A Catalogue of Ashanti Art Taken
from
Kumasi in the Anglo-Ashanti War of 1874." She is presently an Associate
Professor of art history in the Department of Art and Design, Southern
Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL. Since 1987, she has been
documenting Akan cast gold ornaments recovered from the wreck of the
pirate
ship Whydah, which sank off the coast of Cape Cod Massachusetts in
1717. The most direct way to reach Martha is through her office at the
Department of Art and Design,
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62025. However, you may
contact her by e-mail, by using Michael Conner's
address: conner@indiana.edu.
Pam
Welsh-Huggins began learning HTML in
order to invite students to explore and
interrogate a variety of internet
resources and electronic culture as part of her
First Year Composition course at Indiana University. Having
departed I.U's Ph.D. program in English in favor of being an at-home
mom, she
has brought to this project--which is her first excursion into a new
freelance career--the combination of her skills in text
editing,
layout design and HTML markup and her ten years of teaching experience.
When she isn't shuttling her kindergartener
around town or caring for her infant twins, she might actually glance at
her e-mail,
so please feel free to contact her.
Peer Beyond the
Doorway:
Acknowledgements * Introductory
Essay * Behind the
Exhibit (Biographical Info) * Bibliography *
Catalogue of
the Exhibition and
Context Photos
and Diagrams *
Links to
Exhibits Elsewhere *
Technical
Notes *
Comment
Form *
Proceed to the Yoruba or to
the Akan
section.
Last updated 15 September 1995.