Ph. D. The Ohio State University

M.A. Howard University 

B.S. Case Western Reserve University

 

Sharon Pruitt teaches African art, African American art, and Ancient art.  Her research publications appear in books about contemporary Nigerian art, traditional African art, and 19^th and 20^th century African American art and culture.  She focuses on artists who emphatically utilize cultural history and environments to define an individual or national identity.  In 1995, she acquired the first African Art Collection, the Lankton Collection, which was donated to the School of Art and Design.  Using this collection, she curated exhibitions in the School of Art and Design’s Wellington B. Gray Gallery; examples of artworks that have been cataloged may be found by clicking onto “African Art Collection” at: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/mwow.cfm