Former Fowler Museum director and Ghanaian arts scholar Doran Ross dies
"The man who cemented the Fowler Museum at UCLA’s reputation for deeply researched, contextualized, multimedia exhibitions on global arts has died.
Former Fowler Director Doran Ross, a respected Ghanaian arts scholar who spent 20 years at the museum managing or curating nearly 40 African and African American exhibitions shown at 30 venues across the country died Sept. 16 in his Los Angeles home after a long illness, the museum said. He was 73.
Ross joined the Fowler Museum as associate director and curator of Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania in 1981, when the institution was called the UCLA Museum of Cultural History. He contributed to the development of the museum’s new facility, a three-story $22-million building completed in 1992.
After serving as deputy director and curator of African collections, Ross became the first non-faculty, full-time director in 1996, a position he held until his retirement in 2001."— Makeda Easter, Oct. 31, 2020
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