Africa 's wooden sculptures epitomize the continent's rich cultural heritage and artistic prowess. Carved out of indigenous ...

Artistic Innovations and Collaborations' presents the work of four artists who create ensembles for masquerading societies in ...

The African art on display here includes a variety of 19th- and 20th-century spiritual and ceremonial objects, created from metal, wood ... from masks to textiles to sculptures.

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...

Only a handful of Wabanaki artists in recent years have mastered hand-carving wooden masks, but now eight emerging Mi'kmaw artists from Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick are following in ...