Mary Jo Arnoldi

Mary Jo Arnoldi is the curator of African Ethnology and Arts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She has conducted research in West Africa since 1978 and her many publications on African material culture include numerous articles on the museum's historic African collections and its African exhibitions. She co-curated the exhibitions African Voices, the museum's permanent African exhibition (2000); From Timbuctu to Washington (Mali Program) at Smithsonian Folklife Festival ...See more

Mary Jo Arnoldi is the curator of African Ethnology and Arts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She has conducted research in West Africa since 1978 and her many publications on African material culture include numerous articles on the museum's historic African collections and its African exhibitions. She co-curated the exhibitions African Voices, the museum's permanent African exhibition (2000); From Timbuctu to Washington (Mali Program) at Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2003); and Mud Masons of Mali; and produced the film Mud Masons of Djenn� (2013) . See less