Peer Reviewed Articles

“Image Rights, Proprietorship, and Precedent in Cedric Dover’s Negro Art (1960)” American Art Journal Fall 2023: 24-28.

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“Howard University’s Orbital Pull: Alma and her Alma Mater” in Alma Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, ed. Seth Feman and Jonathan F. Waltz(New Haven CT: Yale University Press), 116-121)

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“The Torture of Mothers: Elizabeth Catlett’s Prints as a Call for Reproductive Justice” Art Journal 80(2) Summer 2021: 14-29.

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“Breaking Ground: Constructions of Identity in African American Art,” Eddie Chambers, ed. Routledge Companion to African-American Art History (London: Routledge, 2019): 440-449.

“Art Matters: Howard University’s Art Department 1921 to 1971,” Callaloo, 39, no. 5, (2016): 1199-1218. (Appeared Summer 2018)

“Art Matters: Howard University’s Art Department 1921 to 1971,” Callaloo, 39, no. 5, (2016): 1199-1218. (Appeared Summer 2018)

“The Diasporic Connotations of Collage: Loïs Mailou Jones in Haiti, 1954-1964” American Art 32(1): 24-51.

“Off the Wall, Into the Archive: Black Feminist Curatorial Practices of the 1970s” Archives of American Art Journal 55(2) Fall 2016:  26-45.In the fall of 1978, Corcoran Gallery of Art registrar Theresa Simmons, Renwick Gallery museum technician Edith T. Martin, and others organized a national show of black women artists to coincide with the 1979 annual meeting of the College Art Association. The show never secured adequate funding, and was canceled. This essay explores Contemporary Afro-American Women Artists through its documentation in the Archives of American Art. It considers the historiographical ramifications of Martin’s decision to lend her research files for the exhibition to the Archives for microfilming in relation to feminist and black revisionist curatorial practices of the 1970s. This analysis of the failed exhibition and its paper trail offers a critique of the power and the limitations of the archive for the study of African American art.

“Off the Wall, Into the Archive: Black Feminist Curatorial Practices of the 1970s” Archives of American Art Journal 55(2) Fall 2016:  26-45.

Book Chapters, Exhibition Catalogue Essays, and Contributions

“James Porter” and “Viola Wood” in African Modernism in America, 1947-1967, ed. Perrin Lathorp (New Canaan, CT: American Federation for the Arts with Yale University Press, 2022), 176-177 and 190-191.

 “Labor, Lynching, and the Lord: Parsing the iconography of African American representation in Southern Art” in Southern/Modern (Mint Museum of Art with University of North Carolina Press, June 2023)