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Children of Roxbury, Boston, MA constructing a Dogon Water Granary. |
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It all started 30 years ago when a gaggle of kids, a bunch of
parents, a few dedicated teachers, my MIT student Keith Tibbets and I
constructed in the front yard of a Boston Community School what we
hoped was a likeness of a Dogon Granary. That granary building was
the first introduction of African art into any school in the US and
was financed with great imagination by Marjory Martus of the Ford
Foundation.
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This was the beginning of 'Projet Guggenheim au Mali',
which was soon to build a "water granary" in the village of Sanga, in
Dogon country. That second granary was a response to the drought
that struck the Sahel in 1974 and was made possible by my friend
Lester Wunderman whose inspiring collection of Dogon art is now at
the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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"water granary" became known world wide through the television
documentary, "Behind the Mask" made by the unflappable David Attenborough for the BBC. Project Guggenheim continued to work in
Mali for many years with the help of the Wunderman Foundation, and
with funding from the Rockerfeller Foundation, USAID, and Christian
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