Arthur P. Bourgeois

Arthur P. Bourgeois is the University Professor of Art History at Governor's State University in Illinois. The author of over 30 publications, Dr. Bourgeois is considered a world expert on the peoples of Southeastern Congo as well as Sub-Saharan Africa in general. In addition to his definitive volume  Art of the Yaka and the Suku, Dr. Bourgeois has, over the last decade,  contributed catalog entries to the largest and most prestigious exhibits of African Art. He is also the author of the entries for “Central Africa” and “Yaka” in the new edition of Grove Encyclopedia of Art.  Additionally Dr. Bourgeois will be the first curator of the Non-Western Arts Museum that will launch at Governors State University.

Scott Rodolitz

Scott Rodolitz is a career Africanist. Having studied Philosophy and Comparative Religion at New York University, and Philosophy and Anthropology at Hofstra University, New York, he then lived from 1992-1995 off and on in St. Petersburg, Russia, working with the 12,000 piece African Art collection at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kustkammer), where he is an Associate member. Additionally he is affiliated with The European University at St. Petersburg, and is one of a handful of Americans to have been accepted into the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists and Scholars. He is the curator of the Bakuba Archives. Mr. Rodolitz's publications include Emblems of Passage (2002),  Remnants of Ritual: Selections from the Gelbard collection of African Art (2003), and the forthcoming Kuba: In our own words, by our own hands (2005) as well as numerous magazine and journal articles.