Judith Wilson
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1952
Education
1982-1995
Ph.D., History of Art,
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1981-1982
M.A., History of Art,
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1978-1980
Studio art and art history courses,
The School of Visual Arts, New York
1970-1974
B.A., Literature,
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1973
Visiting research student,
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
1969-1970
Life drawing and Swahili,
Accelerated High School Student Program,
University of California, Berkeley
1966-1970
Bishop O'Dowd High School, Oakland, California
1957-1966
St. Louis Bertrand's Kindergarten and Elementary School, Oakland, California
Employment
Since 1998
Assistant Professor,
African-American Studies, Art History, and Visual Studies,
University of California, Irvine
2001
Instructor,
Summer Humanities Institute, Center for African-American Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles
1998
Visiting Professor,
Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
1998-1994
Assistant Professor,
History of Art and African/ African-American Studies, Yale University
1994-1990
Acting Assistant Professor,
McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1990
Part-time instructor: Art History,
University of Hartford, Connecticut
1990
Part-time instructor, Humanities,
School of Continuing Education, New York University
1990
Part-time instructor,
Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York
1990-1988
Instructor,
Fine Arts, Syracuse University
1988-1987
Teaching fellow,
Fine Arts, Syracuse University
1986
Part-time instructor,
Art History, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1986
Part-time indexer,
Visual Artists Oral History Tapes, Hatch-Billops Collection, New York
1985
Part-time instructor,
Afro-American Studies and Art History,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1985-1984
Project director,
Art Criticism for High School Students,
Education Department,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1983
Part-time instructor,
Art History, University of Hartford, Connecticut
1981-1980
Art reviewer, The Village Voice
1981-1978
Book review columnist/contributing editor, Essence
1980
Administrative assistant,
Art Gallery, The Kitchen Center for Video and Performance, New York
1977-1975
Associate editor, Ms. Magazine
1974
Intern, Ms. Magazine
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
1999-1998
Faculty Career Development Award,
University of California, Irvine
1997-1996
Morse Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University
1988-1987
Carole and Alvin Schragis Faculty Fellowship in Modern Art History, Syracuse University
1987-1986
Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities
1986
New York State Council on the Arts Writer-in-Residence Grant
1985-1981
Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship, Yale University
1970
National Achievement Scholarship, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Monograph
"Garden of Music: The Search for Creative Community in the Art and Life of Bob Thompson (1937-1966)," University Microfilms: Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1995
Edited Journals and Newsletters
Art Journal, Vol 57, n 3, fall 1998, co-edited with James Smalls
Afro-American Art History Newsletter, n 2, fall 1987
Afro-American Art History Newsletter, n1, spring 1987
Artist and Influence 1985, Hatch-Billops Collection, New York, 1985, co-edited with Leo Hamalian
Issue: A Journal for Artists, n 5, winter 1986-85
Issue: A Journal for Artists, n 4, fall 1985
The National Black Feminist Organization Newsletter, n 1 and 2, 1975
Articles in Journals, Books and Exhibition Catalogues
"Triangular Trades: Late Twentieth-Century 'Black' Art & Transatlantic Cultural Commerce," in Shades of Black: Assembling the Eighties - A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Afro-Asian Arts in Post-war Britain, ed. David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, Sonia Boyce, and Sarah Campbell, Institute of International Visual Arts, London and Duke University Press, 2004*
"One Way or Another: Black Feminist Visual Theory," in Theorizing Feminism and Visual Culture, ed. Amelia Jones, Routledge: New York and London, 2002
"How the Invisible Woman Got Herself On the Map: Black Women Artists in California," in Women/Art/California, 1950-2000: Parallels & Intersections, ed. Daniela Salvioni, University of California Press: Berkeley, 2002
"African-American Art," 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (CD-ROM)
"Bob Thompson," in Bob Thompson ed. Thelma Golden, The Whitney Museum of American Art: New York and University of California Press: Berkeley, 1998
"Foreword," Alma W. Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings, ed. Sachi Yanari, Fort Wayne Museum of Art: Fort Wayne, Indiana and Pomegranate: San Francisco, 1998
"Sargent Johnson: Afro-California Modernist," in Sargent Johnson: African-American Modernist, ed. Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998
"Surfing the 'Black' Diasporic Web: Postcolonial British Art and the Decolonization of U.S. Visual Culture," in Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996, ed. Mora J. Byrd. The Caribbean Cultural Center: New York and University of Chicago Press, 1997
"New (Art) Histories: Global Shifts, Uneasy Exchanges," in New Histories, ed. Lia Gangitano, The Institute of Contemporary Art: Boston, 1996
"Hagar's Daughters: Social History, Cultural Heritage, and African-American Women's Art," in Bearing Witness: Art by Contemporary African-American Women, ed. by Jontyle Theresa Robinson, Rizzoli: New York, 1996
"Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher," in Inside the Visible, ed. Catherine de Zegher, The Institute of Contemporary Art: Boston, The Kanaal Art Foundation: Kortrijk, Belgium and M.I.T. Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996
"Robert Louis Thompson," Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, Vol. 5, ed. by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith and Cornel West, Macmillan Library Reference USA: New York, 1996
"Necessary Embellishments: Bill Gaskins' Good and Bad Hair," in Good and Bad Hair, Light Work/ Menschel Gallery: Syracuse, NY, 1996.
"Specific Mysteries: The Art of Joyce J. Scott," in Joyce J. Scott: Images Concealed , San Francisco Art Institute, 1995
"Black Male: Reframing Race in America - A Forum," World Art, n. 1, 1995
"Will the 'New Internationalism' Be the Same Old Story? Some Art Historical Considerations," in Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts , ed. by Jean Fisher, Kala Press: London, 1994
"Beauty Rites: Towards an Anatomy of Culture in African-American Women's Art," The International Review of African American Art, Vol11, n 3, 1994
"XX: Prints by African-American Women," Reflections of the Spirit: Prints by African-American Women, Firehouse Art Center, Printed Image Gallery, Brandywine Workshop: Philadelphia, PA, 1994
"Scenes of War" and "At Work and at Play," in "I Tell My Heart": The Art of Horace Pippin, curated by Judith Stein, Rizzoli: New York, 1993
"Getting Down to Get Over: Bearden's Use of Pornography and the Problem of the Black Female Body in Afro-U.S. Art," in Black Popular Culture, ed. by Gina C. Dent, Dia Art Foundation/ Discussions in Contemporary Culture: 8 , Bay Press: Seattle, 1992
"But There Are Some Among You Who Do Not Believe," This Is My Body: This Is My Blood, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts: Amherst, MA, 1992
"Seeing What I've Never Seen Before: Five Jerome Artists," Five Jerome Artists, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1992
"Lifting 'the Veil': Henry O. Tanner's The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor," Contributions in Black Studies, 9/10,1990-1992
"Lorraine O'Grady: Critical Interventions," Lorraine O'Grady: Critical Interventions, INTAR Gallery, International Arts Relations, Inc.: New York, 1991
"Paper and Pleasure," African American Works on Paper: From the Cochran Collection , New Visions Gallery: Atlanta,1991
"The Rage of Children," The Rage of Children, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College: Miami, 1991
"In Memory of the News and of Our Selves: The Art of Adrian Piper," Third Text, 16/17, autumn/winter 1991
"Optical Illusions: Images of Miscegenation in 19th & 20th-Century American Art," American Art, Vol5, n 3, summer 1991
"Down to the Crossroads: The Art of Alison Saar," Third Text, 10,spring 1990
"What Are We Doing Here? Cultural Difference in Photographic Theory and Practice," S.F. Camerawork Quarterly, Vol17, n 3, fall 1990
"Art," in Black Arts Annual 1988/1989, ed. by Donald Bogle, Garland : New York, 1990
"Seventies Into Eighties--Neo-Hoodooism vs. Postmodernism: When(Art)Worlds Collide," in The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art/ The New Museum of Contemporary Art/ The Studio Museum in Harlem: New York, 1990
"Bob Thompson," Novae: William H. Johnson and Bob Thompson, California Afro-American Museum: Los Angeles, 1990
"Old Visions/ New Frontiers: Black Women Artists," Contemporary Art by Women of Color , Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center: San Antonio, 1990
"Down to the Crossroads: The Art of Alison Saar" (revised), Secrets, Dialogues,
Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar , Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990
"Some Thoughts On Drawing and Women," in Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, curated by Dr. Judith Collischan Van Wagner, Hudson Hills: New York, 1989
"Art," in Black Arts Annual 1987/1988, ed. by Donald Bogle, Garland: New York, 1989
"Stereotypes, Or a Picture Is Worth A Thousand Lies," Prisoners of Image: Ethnic and Gender Stereotypes, Alternative Museum: New York, 1989
"Hexes, Totems and Necessary Saints: A Conversation with Alison Saar," Real Life, Winter 1988/89
"Bob Thompson," in The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, curated by Paul Schimmel and Judith Stein, Rizzoli: New York, 1988
"'Go Back and Retrieve It': Hale Woodruff, Afro-American Modernist," Selected Essays: Art and Artists from the Harlem Renaissance to the 1980s, National Black Arts Festival: Atlanta, 1988
"Autobiography: In Her Own Image," Autobiography: In Her Own Image, INTAR Gallery, INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center: New York, 1988
"Beyond 'Universality': And Towards A History of How We Got There," Cut/ Across, Washington Project for the Arts: Washington, DC, 1988
"Bob Thompson," Bob Thompson, Jamaica Arts Center: Jamaica, Queens, NY, 1987
"The Art of Cynthia Hawkins," The Art of Cynthia Hawkins, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College: Miami, 1986
"Arts & Culture: Romare Bearden," Modern Black Man, July 1986
"Perceptions - Black America Sees White America," Perceptions: Black & White, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College: Miami, 1986
"Coming of Age: A Look at Three Contemporary Artists -Howardena Pindell, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Beverly Buchanan," Essence, May 1986
"Bob Thompson," Sam Gilliam & Bob Thompson, South Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College: Miami, 1985
"Creating A Necessary Space: The Art of Houston Conwill, 1975-1983," The International Review of African American Art, Vol 6, no1,1984
"Myths and Memories: Bob Thompson," Art in America, May 1983
"Black Folk Art: A Vision Endures," Museum Magazine, March 1982
"Edward Clark: Directions," Art in America, January 1981
"The Bullish Market for Black Art," Black Enterprise, December 1980
"Nigeria: Spreading the Word," Village Voice, September 24, 1980
"Ana Mendieta Plants Her Garden," Village Voice, August 13, 1980
"Howardena Pindell Makes Art That Winks at You," Ms. Magazine, May 1980
"Buying Art: The Big Picture," Essence, September 1979
"Alma Thomas: A One-Woman Art Movement," Ms. Magazine, February 1979
Reprints
"Sargent Johnson: Afro-California Modernist," in Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History, ed. by Kymberly N. Pinder, Routledge: New York, 2002
"Seventies Into Eighties--Neo-Hoodooism vs. Postmodernism: When (Art) Worlds Collide," in Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the Twentieth Century, ed. by Patricia Hills, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2000
"Lifting 'the Veil': Henry O. Tanner's The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor," in Critical Issues in American Art, ed. by MaryAnn Calo, Westview Press: New York, 1998
"Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher," Callaloo, Vol19, no 2,1996
"Carrie Mae Weems/Matrix 115," Wadsworth Athenaeum: Hartford, CT, 1991
"Down to the Crossroads: The Art of Alison Saar," Callaloo , Vol 14, n 1, winter 1991
Published Transcripts
"Shades of Grey in the Black Aesthetic," Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: Winston-Salem, NC, 1990
Exhibition and Book Reviews
"The Challenges of the 19th Century: Two Recent Landmark Publications on African American Visual Production - The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872 by Joseph D. Ketner and J.P. Ball: Daguerrean and Studio Photographer, ed. by Deborah Willis," International Review of African American Art, Vol12, n1, 1995
"Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe by Margaret Courtney-Clarke," Woman's Art Journal, Spring 1988
"Rosalyn Drexler at Grey Gallery," Art in America, November 1986
"Nonfiction in Short: Paintings of the British Social Scene from Hogarth to Sickert by E.D.H. Johnson," New York Times Book Review, October 19, 1986
"Brief Encounters: Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art by Sylvia Ardyn Boone," Voice Literary Supplement, September 1986
"Jan Müller at Oil & Steel," Art in America, June 1985
"Iba Ndiaye: Evolution of a Style," African Arts, August 1982
"Raymond Saunders at Hunter Gallery and Mythology," Art in America, March 1982
"Books," a monthly book review column, Essence, November 1981- June 1981
"Hans Hofmann at Emmerich," Art in America, October 1981
"Houston Conwill at P.S. 1," Art in America, October 1981
"Screening Artists(video art)," Village Voice, August 26, 1981
"Interiors(Wopo Holup/ Robert Llimos)," Village Voice, June 17, 1981
"Space Cadets(early '70s alternative spaces)," Village Voice, June 3, 1981
"Small Crafted Warnings (Betye Saar/ group show)," Village Voice, May 20, 1981
"Chapters," a monthly book review column, Essence, May 1981 - December 1978
"Immigrating Ideas (Valerie Jaudon/ Mohamed Bushara)," Village Voice, April 22, 1981
"Private Commentary Goes Public (Howardena Pindell/ Izhar Patkin), " Village Voice, April 15, 1981
"The Shock of the Modern ('The Symbolist Aesthetic')," Village Voice, March 4, 1981
"A Month at the Races (various Black History Month group shows )," Village Voice, February18, 1981
"Denise Green at Protetch," Art in America, February 1981
"Irene Wheeler at Pleiades," Art in America, February 1981
"A Serene Indifference(William T. Williams)," Village Voice, January 21, 1981
"Zoo Story (Jim Sullivan)," Village Voice, January 14, 1981
"Advanced Placement Tests (Brenda Miller/ Maren Hassinger)," Village Voice, December 24, 1980
"Exiles('Masterpieces of the People's Republic of the Congo')," Village Voice, December 17, 1980
"The Last Detail(Robert Donley)," Village Voice, December 3, 1980
"The Patterns of Little Feet(Sonia Delaunay)," Village Voice, November 26, 1980
"Painting by Numbers (Mario Merz)," Village Voice, November 12, 1980
"Petal Pushers (Ann Sperry)," Village Voice, November 12, 1980
"Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe at John Weber," Art in America, November 1980
"Melvin Edwards at 55 Mercer" Art in America, October 1980
"'Afro-American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes' at the Jamaica Arts Center and the Bronx Museum" Art in America, October 1980
"Robert Yucikas at Eugenia Cucalon" Art in America, June 1980
"'Afro-American Abstraction' at P.S. 1" Art in America, June 1980
"Book Reviews: Beautiful, Also, Are the Souls of My Black Sisters: A History of Black Women in America by Jean Noble and Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope by Robert Coles and Jane Hallowell Coles," Essence, November 1978
"'Jump At De Sun' - Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography by Robert E. Hemenway," Ms Magazine., June 1978
"In Short - Black As I Am by Zindzi Mandela and Peter Magubane," Ms. Magazine, May 1978
"In Short - Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American by Robert G. Weisbord," Ms. Magazine, February 1976
Interviews
"Judith Wilson: Art History's Intellectual Racism," in "Images of an Era, 1976-1996" by Diane Weathers, International Review of African American Art, Vol 13, n 3, 1996
"Raymond Saunders," Issue: A Journal for Artists, n 6, spring 1986
"Robert Farris Thompson," Issue: A Journal for Artists, n 5 , winter 1986
"Richard Bellamy," Issue: A Journal for Artists, n 4 , fall 1985
"Ed Clark," Issue: A Journal for Artists, n 4 , fall 1985
"A Conversation with Toni Morrison," Essence, July 1981
"Buchi Emecheta: Africa from a Woman's View," Essence, February 1980
"Barbara Chase-Riboud: Sculpting Our History," Essence, December 1979
"Rosa Guy: Writing with Bold Vision," Essence, October 1979
"Boston Busing: The Kids Tell Their Side," with Elaine Shannon, Ms. Magazine, September 1975
Conferences and Symposia
May 2003
African-American Art Colloquium, W.E.B. Du Bois Center for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University
November 2002
"An Evening with Ted Joans" panel, Cross-Cultural Center, University of California, Irvine
April 2001
"Shades of Black: Assembling the Eighties - A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Afro-Asian Arts in Post-war Britain" conference, Duke University
March 2001
"Exhibiting the Museum" symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs
March 2001
"Seeing Race In Visual Art & Culture" session, Collegium for African-American Research (CAAR) Annual Conference, Cagliari, Italy
February 2001
2001 Berlind Symposium, The Maier Museum, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA
March 1999
"Contributions of African-American Artists to 20th-Century American Art" conference, The Detroit Institute of Arts
March 1999
"Situation Critical: African-American Writers On African-American Art" symposium, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
October 1998
"The Harlem Renaissance & 70s Blaxploitation Films" conference, University of California, Los Angeles
September 1998
"Miscegenated Modernism: The Black/ White Co-Creation of 20th-Century Culture" symposium, New School for Social Research
May 1998
"Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance" conference, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
April 1998
"Mirror Images: Women Artists & Surrealism" conference, The List Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 1998
"Art from the 80s & 90s: Have the Ideas and the Art Changed?" symposium, The School of Visual Arts, New York
June 1997
"New Frames for Knowledge: Race and Notions of Civilization," National Graduate Seminar, American Photography Institute, New York University
October 1996
"Postmortem: Writing Artists' Lives After 'The Death of the Author'" conference, Stanford University
October 1996
"Academic Exchange/Work-In-Progress Session: Art History," Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, University of California, Irvine
March 1996
"From Revolution to Renaissance: African-American Art from Slave Artisans to Exiled Artists, 1776-1920,"Washington University, St. Louis, MO
May 1995
"Working Symposium: 'Other Histories ',"Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
April 1995
"Unplanning: Three Perspectives on How to Reveal the Invisible Space of the City," Yale University School of Architecture
April 1995
"On Multiple Aesthetics, Cultural World Views, and Art Education" Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
January 1995
"Beyond African-American Art History: Black Visual Studies" session, College Art Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX
October 1994
"On the Global Presence of African Spirit in Contemporary Art" Conference, San Francisco Art Institute
September 1994
"Critical Practices: Power, Theory and Visual Culture" Conference, Middlesex University, London
April 1994
INIVA Symposium: "A New Internationalism, "Tate Gallery, London
April 1994
"Photography and the Photographic "Conference, University of California, Riverside
March 1994
"The Legacy of Horace Pippin " Symposium, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
February 1994
CAA Education Committee session: "Revisionism and the Teaching of Art History," and Studio art session: "East in America: Japanese and Japanese American Artists in the United States Before 1965," College Art Association Annual Conference, New York
April 1993
"African-American Art," Delaware Symposium on American Art, University of Delaware, Newark
February 1993
"Imag(in)ing Culture: African-American and Chicano Visual Art" conference, University of Texas, Austin
June 1992
"Criticism and History: A Postmortem On Postmodernism?" National Graduate Seminar, American Photography Institute, New York University
May 1992
"The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr." panel, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
April 1992
"Art and Social Responsibility: A Community Forum, "The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
April 1992
Third Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art, Howard University, Washington, DC
December 1991
"Black Popular Culture" conference, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
November 1991
"What Role Will the Languages of Feminism Play in the Art World of the '90s?" panel, The Drawing Center, New York
March 1991
"When Does Difference Matter?" session, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, New Orleans
February 1991
International Association of Art Critics session: "Critics View the 90's" and A rt History session: "The Gender Politics of American Art & Culture," College Art Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC
February 1991
"Cultural Continuities in the Arts" symposium, Smith College, Northampton, MA
January 1991
"Women in the Arts" symposium, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
June 1990
"Dialogue: Gatekeepers in an Era of Diversification, "Photography Sesquicentennial Project Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
June 1990
"The Canon: Issues of Inclusion, Exclusion & Dissolution" panel, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York
May 1990
"Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic" panel, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
May 1990
"Novae: William H. Johnson & Bob Thompson" panel, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles
April 1990
"Women of Color in the Arts" session, 17th Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
March 1990
"Art by Women of Color" symposium, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX
February 1990
Studio session: "De facto Racism in the Arts," College Art Association Annual Conference, New York
November 1989
Conference, Upstate New York Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Albany
October 1989
"Post-Modernist Theory: What's In It For Us?" Barnard Conference on Feminist Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
May 1989
"The Critical Comment: Writing About Art &Society" conference, St. Michael's College, Winooski, VT
March 1989
"African-American Aesthetics: Links to the Past/Directions for the Future" panel, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
February 1988
"Facing Each Other: Third World & Feminist Art History," Women's Caucus for Art/College Art Association Annual Conference, Houston, TX
December 1987
"The Great Goddess Debate: Spiritual vs. Political Practice in Recent American Feminist Art" panel, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
October 1987
"Critics & Creators - Emilio Cruz" panel, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
May 1987
"Artist &Influence: Writing About Black Artists" panel, Hatch-Billops Collection, New York
November 1986
Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
October 1986
"The Contemporary Woman in the Visual Arts," Women Artists Registry of Minnesota 10th Anniversary Conference, Minneapolis
April 1986
"Artist & Influence: Imagery of Women from Greek Mythology Through Contemporary Afro-American Art" conference, Hatch-Billops Collection, New York
October 1984
4th Annual Symposium on Contemporary Art, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
December 1982
"Art Critics: A New Generation," A.I.R. Gallery, New York
April 1982
"Beyond Museum Row" panel, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
February 1982
"Black Women Artists: An Unknown History" session, Women's Caucus for Art/ College Art Association Annual Conference, New York
March 1981
"Afro-American Abstraction: A Symposium," Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Public Lectures
March 2001
Vassar College
February 2000
Getty Research Center, Santa Monica, CA
November 1999
The Detroit Institute of Arts
November 1999
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
November 1999
Duke University
October 1999
The Armand Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
March 1999
University of Pennsylvania
September 1998
Whitney Museum of American Art
April 1998
Columbia University
February 1998
Yale University Art Gallery
February 1998
University of California, Los Angeles
June 1997
University of California, Irvine
November 1996
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
March 1996
University of California, Irvine
December 1995
New York Institute for the Humanities, New York University
November 1995
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
November 1995
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
November 1995
University of Georgia, Athens
November 1994
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
November 1994
C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York, NY
October 1994
Mills College, Oakland, CA
April 1994
University of California, Santa Barbara
March 1994
Women's Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
April 1993
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
October 1991
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
April 1991
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
January 1991
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
April 1989
Longwood Arts Project at P.S. 39, Bronx, NY
October 1988
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore
January 1988
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
December 1987
State University of New York, Albany
November 1987
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
October - November 1987
The Brooklyn Museum
March 1987
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
January 1987
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
March 1986
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
February 1986
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
January 1986
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
February 1985
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
February 1984
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
August 1982
The Brooklyn Museum
Professional Associations
Since 1996
Editorial advisory board,
American Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Since 1993
International Council, Third Text
Since 1990
Contributing and Advisory Editor,
Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters
1998
Advisory board, I'll Make Me a World, Blackside, Inc. Film and Television Productions, Boston
1998-1996
Advisory board, Gordon Parks: American Photographer, Robert Levi Films, Inc., New York
1997-1993
Editorial board, College Art Association Art Journal
1995
Advisory board,
Voices in Exile: The African-American Experience in France, 1830 - 1995 project, Joanne & David Burke filmmakers
1995-1994
Advisory board,
Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson, WETA public television project, Washington, DC
1994-1991
Editorial board,
Carter G. Woodson Institute Black Studies series, The University Press of Virginia
1994-1991
Editorial board,
Feminist Issues series, The University Press of Virginia
1993-1990
Advisory board,
Museum for Contemporary Arts, Baltimore
Service
1996
Panelist,
Special Exhibitions Program, National Endowment for the Arts
1994-1992
Advisor to the Organizing Committee for "A Visual Arts Encounter: The African Americans and Europe conference," sponsored by the Sorbonne, the University of Hanover, Harvard University, and the University of Mississippi, at the Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, February 1994
1991
Juror,
Individual Artist Award Program in Visual Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Maryland
1989
Advisory Council,
projected 4-volume publication on contemporary African-, Asian-, Latino-, & Native American art, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and published by the Studio Museum in Harlem
1989
Panelist,
Museum Aid Program, New York State Council on the Arts
1987-1986
Advisory Committee, "Artists of Diverse Cultures: Toward an Inclusive Art History," 2-day state conference on minority artists, organized by the Museum Aid Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem
1987-1986
Panelist,
Visual Artists Program, New York State Council on the Arts
1986
Associate editor, n 6, Issue: A Journal for Artists
1981-1980
Designer, Jes' Grew, the quarterly newsletter of the National Association of Third World Writers, an organization founded by Audre Lorde and Jessica Hagedorn
1981-1980
Secretary, National Association of Third World Writers
1978-1977
Secretary, The Sisterhood, an organization of African-American women writers, founded by Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker