Erica P Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 5455598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica P Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica P |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erica P. Jones is Assistant Curator of African Art at the UCLA Fowler Museum. She conducted research on museums and heritage in the Cameroon Grassfields from 2010 to 2012. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Acasa's Collaboration, Collections, and Restitution Best Practices Report
Today's widespread global discourse on restitution and repatriation of African arts is not new, but rather a continuation of over a century of requests, negotiations, and debates. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many African kingdoms began requesting the return of recently looted objects. In 1950, the writer and politician Aimé Césaire suggested thatSoon after Césaire's critical assessment, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghisla…
Beyond Narratives: Interstitial Provenance as a Methodology for Transfers of African Arts
It is far from revelatory to note that provenance records for nearly all non-contemporary works of African art residing in collections outside of the African continent today lack complete information that tracks an object from creation to current location. To research the provenance of African art is to become exceedingly comfortable with shards of information, as artist and author Edmund de Waal terms them.1 Of course, we have instances of relat…
Wellcome Dispersal at the National Museum of Ghana
From 1950 to 1952, the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM) dispersed material to Ghana to serve as a foundation for the National Museum of the Gold Coast in Accra (now the National Museum of Ghana). The dispersal includes about 550 archaeological and cultural heritage works from across Africa and Oceania, although largely consisting of objects from West Africa. In 2022, the first author (Gmayi) was part of the British Museum's International…
The House Was Too Small: Yorùbá Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond
all photos: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, except where otherwise notedFrom October 29th, 2023 to June 2024, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents The House Was Too Small: Yorùbá Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond in conjunction with the Museum's sixtieth anniversary celebration. Bringing together historical and contemporary objects from West Africa and the Americas, the exhibition illustrates the historical legacy as well as the c…
Shifting Paradigms and Practice: An Ethical Return from the Fowler Museum at Ucla
On February 8, 2024, the Fowler Museum at UCLA's director, Dr. Silvia Forni; its director of Registration and Collections Management, Dr. Rachel Raynor; and I stood in front of two museum crates on the Dwabrem festival ground at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ghana. We opened the crates before Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and a crowd of thousands and presented seven objects to the assembled people, officially and fully returning them to the kin…
Asking Different Questions: Case Studies in Collaborative Research from the Fowler Museum at Ucla
Imperatives of Restitution: Standards and Funding
A Lending Museum: The Movement of Objects and the Impact of the Museum Space in the Grassfields (Cameroon)
A Lending Museum: The Movement of Objects and the Impact of the Museum Space in the Grassfields (Cameroon)
Imperatives of Restitution: Standards and Funding
Asking Different Questions: Case Studies in Collaborative Research from the Fowler Museum at Ucla
The House Was Too Small: Yorùbá Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond
all photos: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, except where otherwise notedFrom October 29th, 2023 to June 2024, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents The House Was Too Small: Yorùbá Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond in conjunction with the Museum's sixtieth anniversary celebration. Bringing together historical and contemporary objects from West Africa and the Americas, the exhibition illustrates the historical legacy as well as the c…
Shifting Paradigms and Practice: An Ethical Return from the Fowler Museum at Ucla
On February 8, 2024, the Fowler Museum at UCLA's director, Dr. Silvia Forni; its director of Registration and Collections Management, Dr. Rachel Raynor; and I stood in front of two museum crates on the Dwabrem festival ground at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ghana. We opened the crates before Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and a crowd of thousands and presented seven objects to the assembled people, officially and fully returning them to the kin…
Acasa's Collaboration, Collections, and Restitution Best Practices Report
Today's widespread global discourse on restitution and repatriation of African arts is not new, but rather a continuation of over a century of requests, negotiations, and debates. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many African kingdoms began requesting the return of recently looted objects. In 1950, the writer and politician Aimé Césaire suggested thatSoon after Césaire's critical assessment, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghisla…
Beyond Narratives: Interstitial Provenance as a Methodology for Transfers of African Arts
It is far from revelatory to note that provenance records for nearly all non-contemporary works of African art residing in collections outside of the African continent today lack complete information that tracks an object from creation to current location. To research the provenance of African art is to become exceedingly comfortable with shards of information, as artist and author Edmund de Waal terms them.1 Of course, we have instances of relat…
Wellcome Dispersal at the National Museum of Ghana
From 1950 to 1952, the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM) dispersed material to Ghana to serve as a foundation for the National Museum of the Gold Coast in Accra (now the National Museum of Ghana). The dispersal includes about 550 archaeological and cultural heritage works from across Africa and Oceania, although largely consisting of objects from West Africa. In 2022, the first author (Gmayi) was part of the British Museum's International…
Art (4 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works)