This wood-and-paint mask was created by the Baule Tribe of Ivory Coast and featured in Tribal Art from Africa, an exhibit held in TC’s Macy Gallery in February 2009.
TC alumnus Colonel Eugene E. Myers, who once worked closely with then Chair of Art Education Edwin Ziegfeld, established the Myers Foundations, providing TC with funding each year to support the arts in higher education. The first TC publication funded by the Myers Foundations was the illustrated volume, The Ziegfeld Collection: International Artworks of Adolescents from the 1950s.
Colonel Eugene E. Myers, once a TC student in the late 1930s working closely with then Chair of Art Education Edwin Ziegfeld on his seminal text Art Today, established the Myers Foundations, which provides Teachers College generous funding each year to support the arts in higher education, including the exhibition, Tribal Art from Africa.