Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels featured by the Fowler Museum at UCLA

The Fowler Museum at UCLA featured Kyrah Malika Daniels in honor of the 10-year anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake. She and Curatorial and Research Associate of Haitian Arts, Katherine Smith, discussed a beaded tapestry in UCLA's collection about that same event, by Evelyn Alcide.

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CAPTION: Evelyne Alcide (b. 1969, Port-au-Prince, Haiti); Séisme (Earthquake), 2010; Fowler Museum at UCLA, X2010.17.4; Museum Purchase, the Jerome L. Joss Endowment Fund

 

Kyrah Malika Daniels, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Art History, African & African Diaspora Studies, and Theology at Boston College. Her research interests include Africana religions, sacred arts, material culture, and ritual healing traditions. Daniels was awarded a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art for 2019-20. She is currently completing her first book, Art of the Healing Gods, which examines sacred art objects used in healing ceremonies to treat spiritual illnesses in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Following the Haitian earthquake of 2010, she worked in St. Raphael, Haiti, with Lakou Solèy Academic and Cultural Arts Center, a grassroots organization that develops arts-based pedagogy. Daniels currently serves as Co-Vice President for KOSANBA, the Scholarly Association for the Study of Haitian Vodou.