Betsy D Quick
Biographic Data
| ID | 5456063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betsy D Quick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betsy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Quick |
| SIGNATURE | QUICK B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Doran H. Ross
It took the UCLA African Arts editorial board less than a minute to decide unanimously to dedicate a full issue of the journal to honoring Doran H. Ross and his expansive contributions to the field of African and African Diaspora arts and expressive culture (Fig. 1). To start, there is probably no one who has contributed more to African Arts than Doran. As Donald Cosentino, his former coeditor, writes in his First Word, Doran was an editor for ne…
Doran H. Ross: Generosity. Intellect. Passion
On the death of a chief, the Akan would say, “A frog's length is only apparent after death,”2 to suggest that a person's accomplishments are often not appreciated during their lifetime. Many who have contributed essays—and perhaps some of you readers—are only now coming to know the full measure of Doran Ross's accomplishments. After a forty-four-year friendship, working with Doran on some fifty-four exhibitions (of which thirty-one were African),…
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity was a project that only Doran, and likely the Fowler, would have had the desire, or drive, or, frankly, the appetite to undertake. He envisioned it as an exhibition centered on a singular genre of art, presented through dynamic perspectives that explored the cloth's lived contexts and meanings. It was an exhibition built in part on a year-long high school course on kente and the arts …
Doran H. Ross 1947–2020
African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
Developed by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style” introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking…
Twelfth Triennial Symposium on African Art, St. Thomas
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity: A Curriculum Resource Unit
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou: A Curriculum Resource Unit
What Is African Art: A Resource Pack for Africa '95
African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
Developed by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style” introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking…
What Is African Art: A Resource Pack for Africa '95
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou: A Curriculum Resource Unit
Twelfth Triennial Symposium on African Art, St. Thomas
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity: A Curriculum Resource Unit
African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
Developed by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style” introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking…
Doran H. Ross 1947–2020
Doran H. Ross
It took the UCLA African Arts editorial board less than a minute to decide unanimously to dedicate a full issue of the journal to honoring Doran H. Ross and his expansive contributions to the field of African and African Diaspora arts and expressive culture (Fig. 1). To start, there is probably no one who has contributed more to African Arts than Doran. As Donald Cosentino, his former coeditor, writes in his First Word, Doran was an editor for ne…
Doran H. Ross: Generosity. Intellect. Passion
On the death of a chief, the Akan would say, “A frog's length is only apparent after death,”2 to suggest that a person's accomplishments are often not appreciated during their lifetime. Many who have contributed essays—and perhaps some of you readers—are only now coming to know the full measure of Doran Ross's accomplishments. After a forty-four-year friendship, working with Doran on some fifty-four exhibitions (of which thirty-one were African),…
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity was a project that only Doran, and likely the Fowler, would have had the desire, or drive, or, frankly, the appetite to undertake. He envisioned it as an exhibition centered on a singular genre of art, presented through dynamic perspectives that explored the cloth's lived contexts and meanings. It was an exhibition built in part on a year-long high school course on kente and the arts …
Art (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Exhibition (3 works) · Law (3 works)