Diane Pelrine | Faculty
Adjunct Professor, Department of History of Art
Associate Director, Curatorial Services
Curator of African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art
E-mail: dpelrine@indiana.edu
Education
Ph.D. Department of Art History, Indiana University
Research Interests
- African art, especially from eastern and southern Africa
- African crafts and textile
- Art of the islands of the South Pacific
- Collecting and exhibiting ethnographic arts
Selected Publications
- Affinities of Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection (Prestel, 1996).
- African Art from the Rita and John Grunwald Collection (Indiana University Art Museum in association with Indiana University Press, 1988).
Courses taught
- Introduction to African Art (A155)
- Problems in African Art: Textiles & Fashion in Africa (A650)
- Art of Eastern/Southern Africa (A352/A552)
- Art, Craft, Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa (355/A555)
- Problems in African Art: Authenticity in African Art, Tradiational and Modern (A650)
- Art of the South Pacific (A351/A551)
- Art of Central Africa (AA356/A556)
