Nicola Levell has won the American Anthropological Association’s Council of Museum Anthropology’s 2021 Michael Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology for her project Shadows, Strings & Other Things (the physical and the digital exhibitions) and her edited volume Bodies of Enchantment: Puppets of Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas (2021). This award is the most prestigious award for museum anthropology in the English-speaking world (see: www.facebook.com/287321201388402/posts/4624148151038997/?d=n)
This multi-modal project also won the Canadian Museum Association’s 2020 award for outstanding exhibition of cultural heritage.
To explore the digital exhibit: www.shadowstringthings.com/
To view information on the book, Bodies of Enchantment: www.figure1publishing.com/book/bodies-of-enchantment/
