Alvia Wardlaw

Alvia J. Wardlaw (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli November dabaa anu dali yuuni 1947) nyɛla Americanima nucheeni baŋda ka nyɛ ŋun be tiŋgban maa nucheeni baŋdiba ban gaŋdu ka be  African-American. 

 Shikuru baŋsim
Wardlaw nyɛla ŋun daa deegi B.A. degree in Art History shikuru yuli booni Wellesley College yuuni 1969. Yuuni 1986, o daa deegi M.A. degree in Art History shikuru yuli booni New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Yuuni 1996, o daa nya Ph.D. degree in Art History ka di daa yina University of Texas at Austin.

 Exhibitions curated 

 2006: Thorton Dial in the 21st Century; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, exhibit and catalogue
 2002–2006: The Quilts of Gees Bend – 11 cities
 Our New Day Begun: African American Artists Entering the Millennium, exhibition catalogue, LBJ Library and Museum
 Roy DeCarava: Photographs, exhibition and exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
 Ceremonies and Visions: The Art of John Biggers Homecoming. African American Family History in Georgia John Biggers: Bridges 1995: John Biggers: View from the Upper Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
 2005: Notes from a Child's Odyssey: The Art of Kermit Oliver, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
 2008: Houston Collects: African American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 Writing 

 Dominique de Menil asked her to write an essay for the groundbreaking exhibition The De Luxe Show, August 22, 1971
 The exhibition Handcrafted, an early show at the Studio Museum [in Harlem, 1972].
 The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room (with essays by Edmund Barry Gaither, Alison de Lima Greene, and Robert Farris Thompson), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), 1995.
 (Editor) Grant Hill, Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 2004.
 Notes from a Child's Odyssey: The Art of Kermit Oliver, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), 2005.
 Charles Alston, Pomegranate (Petaluma, CA), 2007.
 Also author of Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art, as an accompaniment to the exhibition. Di shɛli nyɛ The Black Scholar.
 Collecting African American Art: the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2009.

 Pina 

 Fulbright Fellowship in  West Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal in 1984
 Fulbright Award for study in Tanzania, East Africa in 1997
 Senior Fellow for the 2001 American Leadership Forum
 Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 1994
 Award of Merit from the University of Texas at Austin
 Ethos Founders Award from Wellesley College
 African American Living Legend by African-American News and Issues''
 Texas Southern University's Research Scholar of the Year in 2009. 

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