On Monday, the U.S. Mission in Nigeria announced the launch of the 2022 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) project to train Nigerian museum professionals in wood conservation, documentation, and storage. The Yale University Art Gallery has been awarded the AFCP grant to implement the project: “Sustaining a Partnership in Wood Conservation between the National […]
The United States Mission in Nigeria on Monday announced the launch of the 2022 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) project to train Nigerian museum professionals in wood conservation, documentation, and storage. The Mission in a statement said that the Yale University Art Gallery has been awarded the AFCP grant to implement the project titled “Sustaining a Partnership in Wood Conservation between the National Museum, Lagos and the Yale University Art Gallery.”
Scholar, artist, and curator Royce K. Young Wolf will help steward Yale’s collections of art and artifacts relating to the Indigenous peoples of North America.