May 21, 2007 -- A selection of 100 African sculpture works from the New Orleans Museum of Art collection will be on display at the University of Wyoming Art Museum from May 26 through Aug. 12.

"Resonance from the Past," was most recently hosted by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.

"New Orleans is considered the most African of American cities," says Susan Moldenhauer, director and chief curator of the UW Art Museum. "The city has maintained continuous ties to African culture that go back hundreds of years."

The New Orleans Museum of Art was among the earliest of American municipal museums to devote significant resources to the arts of Africa, Moldenhauer says.