LaGamma, Alisa

LC control no.	no 97043897
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	LaGamma, Alisa *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Congo (Democratic Republic) Côte d'Ivoire Togo Senegal Nigeria South Africa
Place of birth	Lubumbashi (Congo)
Field of activity	Art, African Masks, African
Affiliation	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Columbia University University of Virginia
Profession or occupation	Museum curators Art museum curators Authors
Found in	The art of the Punu mukudj masquerade, 1995: t.p. (Alisa LaGamma) Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 4, 2017 Staff list (Alisa LaGamma, Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas) Observer website, Met's Africa department head, Julie Jones, to retire, Alisa LaGamma named as replacement, 01/09/13, viewed October 22, 2019 (Alisa LaGamma, a curator in the department who is a specialist in African art, will become curator in charge of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; born in Lubumbashi, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and spent formative years in the Ivory Coast, Togo, Senegal, Nigeria, and South Africa as the daughter of a U.S. Foreign Service officer; undergraduate degree in art history from the University of Virginia; M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University; her doctoral research in Central Africa explored performance of a celebrated mask form)
Associated language	eng