Faculty kudos!

Kudos to MSP’s founding Director, Ray Silverman, whose book, Ethiopian Church Art: Painters, Patrons, Purveyors (Los Angeles, 2022) was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award. This award is made once every three years by the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), the primary organ for the field of African art.

The book, based on three decades of fieldwork and research, has been described as a groundbreaking study, and the first monograph to examine the contemporary practices associated with the tradition of painting in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. One review observes that “A book like this will never again be written.”