Bolaji Campbell – RISD Academic Affairs

Campbell Featured in New Edited Volume on Ifá

Written on March 22, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Bolaji Campbell (Professor, History of Art + Visual Culture) has contributed a chapter entitled Of Color, Character, Attributes, and Values of Orunmila to a new edited volume Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance, edited by Jacob K. Olupona...

ACASA Symposium featuring Campbell paper

Written on March 19, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Bolaji Campbell (Associate Professor, HAVC) will be reading a paper (Feel the Color, Play with Power: Orisa Color in Africa and Its Diaspora) on the panel “Red, White, Black and More: Sensing, Defining and Performing Color” at the 16th...

Siona O’Connell and Curate Africa at RISD

Written on February 26, 2013. Posted in Liberal Arts, Updates from & for Faculty.

The Division of Liberal Arts is proud to announce its collaboration with Dr. Siona O’Connell from the University of Cape Town on “Curate Africa.” Described as “one of the most significant art projects on Africa for many years,” Curate...

Bolaji Campbell at Yale University

Written on November 14, 2012. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Bolaji Campbell (Associate Professor, HAVC) will moderate a panel discussion at Yale University on “African Artists Imagine the Present Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Art Part I” on Thursday, November 15, 2012.

Campbell essay "Perspectives on Contemporary Nigerian Painting"

Written on October 4, 2012. Posted in Announcements + Updates.

Bolaji Campbell (Associate Professor, HAVC) has recently published an essay: “Perspectives on Contemporary Nigerian Painting”, in “Ezumeezu: Essays on Nigerian Art and Architecture, a Festschrift in Honour of Demas Nwoko”, edited...

Coco Fusco screening, panel discussion, and lecture

Written on October 10, 2011. Posted in Foundation Studies, Liberal Arts.

Joon Lee (English Department), Bolaji Campbell (History of Art and Visual Culture) and Lori Esposito (Foundation Studies will discuss the significance of Coco Fusco’s work to our various disciplines and present a screening of Fusco’s work on Wednesday,...