Photographer Selim Harbi is drawn to West Africa for its culture and its handicrafts – specifically, its masks – and the people behind the masks.

African mask art, famous the world over for its intricate designs and symbolic meanings, has transitioned from traditional ceremonies to a global decorative phenomenon ...

From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings ...

For more than three decades, James Gaasch helped bring the globe to Humboldt State University as a professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures.He taught numerous courses during his ...

An African mask or ancestral carving, no less than a Greek Venus or Apollo, represents an ideal of beauty or power sacred to the people for whom it was made. Like other ideal arts, African art ...

In the West African country of Mali, masks and puppets play an important role in traditional culture. Despite the influence of the modern world, that importance remains. But now, it is also being ...

A reception is being held from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the gallery, to celebrate this presentation of African cultural art while also recognizing Black History Month.

Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the ...

Photographer Selim Harbi was drawn to West Africa for its culture and its handicrafts – specifically, its masks. When he visited the region in 2014, he spent time asking people all about the ...