“Ashanti: Art, Culture, Heritage”     Exhibition and catalogue by Ana Garić, MAA curator
		(The Museum of African Art, September 2005 / May 2006)

The Ashanti people that inhabit the area of modern Ghana, belong to the wider ethnic group – Akan. With the strengthening of the political and economic power of the highly organized Ashanti Federation (from the 17th century onwards), art under its patronage flourished.

		„The Art of Power, The Power of Art: Bronze Sculpture of West Africa”       Exhibition and catalogue by Narcisa Knežević-Šijan, art historian and MAA senior curator
		(The Museum of African Art, January 2005 / June 2005)

Bronze sculpture of West Africa serves as a testimony of a bountiful and highly developed artistic tradition. This technically advanced and aesthetically refined form of expression has been and still is the preoccupation of art historians, anthropologists and artists.