Laura De Becker
Program
Institution
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Title
Chief Curator
Institution at time of Fellowship
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Mentor
Trevor Schoonmaker
Laura De Becker is the Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a Andrew W. Mellon fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her most recent projects include We Write To You About Africa, a reinstallation of UMMA’s permanent African collection that has doubled the footprint of the African gallery, and that prompted a separate project grappling with issues of ownership and ethics, titled Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution.
De Becker earned her PhD from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, and has worked at museums in Rwanda, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the United States. She is currently working on a project titled Ghana 1957: African Art After Independence, scheduled to commemorate Ghana’s 70th anniversary of its Independence in 2027.
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