 | Frederick John Lamp |
Frederick John Lamp has been appointed as the first Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Lamp, who is currently curatorial department head for Arts of Africa, Asia, the Americas & Oceana at The Baltimore Museum of Art, will assume his new position on Jan. 1.
"We are indeed fortunate," says Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery, "that Frederick Lamp has agreed to bring his rich experience and formidable skills, garnered over more than two decades at the Baltimore Museum and through extensive field work in Africa, back to Yale University where he pursued his graduate studies. He will soon be leading the development of a major new department of African art for the Yale Art Gallery.
"His position, recently endowed by Charles Benenson, Yale class of 1933, has already been fortified by the acquisition of the Guy van Rijn Archives of African Art, the anonymous gift of a major African art collection, and the creation of the James and Laura Ross Gallery of African Art, which will soon open within Yale's landmark Louis I. Kahn building, now undergoing a complete restoration," adds Reynolds.
Lamp's interest in African art and culture began after his graduation from Kent State University, Ohio, in 1967, when he joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Sierra Leone teaching art and English. He continued his studies at Ohio University, earning an M.A. in African studies, and was hired by the Museum of African Art as the director of higher education and head of the Eliot Elisofon Archive. In 1981, a year before receiving his Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale, Lamp joined the staff of the Baltimore Museum of Art as associate curator of the Arts of Africa, the Americas & Oceana. Under his care, the collection of African art in particular expanded significantly, and he now heads the department that also includes Asian art.
Lamp has written, lectured, taught and organized numerous exhibitions and performances of African art, with a particular focus on the art of Baga, on which he is an acknowledged authority. Among his numerous academic honors are a Fulbright Scholar Award, an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
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