Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum isn’t going anywhere. Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the unique Detroit institution founded by artist and collector Olayami Dabls in 1998 would be closing its ...
Olayami Dabls looks at his collapsed MBAD African Bead Museum building before it gets demolished. Credit: Kriss Putnins An 11th-hour appeal to save a collapsed building that was part of Detroit’s MBAD ...
A partially collapsed building on the grounds of Detroit’s Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum was demolished Tuesday by orders from the city of Detroit, bringing a brief but passionate struggle to a close ...
Detroit’s Dabls MBAD African Bead Museum is part of a sprawling complex across two blocks. Credit: Lee DeVito The City of Detroit has ordered the emergency demolition of a partially collapsed building ...
Report on a Bead Society of Greater Washington program on African beads by Kathy Koch on February 12, 1998. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...