Amherst featured Dr. Jones and her recent campus appearance on their website. See the highlights here. You can also view her video interview with Amherst professor Nicola Courtright reflecting on her time as a student and her career as a curator and art historian below.
Breaking The Frame →
Rand Richards Cooper of Amherst Magazine spent an afternoon with Dr. Jones taking in the art at The Studio Museum in Harlem followed by a late lunch at the renowned Red Rooster. Read more about their afternoon in New York here.
Curator Receives Genius Grant →
Dr. Jones sits down with Stephania Davis of The Crisis Magazine to talk about her journey in the art world and what it was like receiving the call from the MacArthur Foundation. Click here to see what she has to say.
Announcing a new book series from Duke University Press, edited by Kellie Jones (Columbia) and Steven Nelson (UCLA) →
"The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas" showcases and brings together the path-breaking approaches to the study of the multifaceted and multilocated arts and architecture produced by peoples of African descent worldwide. Featuring original research, new methods, and the latest developments in these areas of inquiry, this series seeks to foster new conversations that include scholars, curators, and artists. To this end, it invites projects that expand our knowledge of the arts of peoples of African descent in a larger global context and broader artistic worlds, it welcomes work that brings to the fore areas that have been previously overlooked, and it encourages pursuits that rethink the visual arts of these transnational worlds, the contexts in which they exist, and the institutions that attend to them.
We welcome your projects. Information on how to submit materials to Duke University Press can be found here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Authors/manuscript.php
Black Lives Take Center Stage at College Art Association’s 2017 Conference →
artnet News talks about the College Art Association's 2017 Annual Conference, and Dr. Kellie Jones's participation in the discussion on art and social movements. Read more here.
#16BARS: CONVERSATIONS WITH MACARTHUR “GENIUS” KELLIE JONES →
Dr. Kellie Jones is featured in "16 Bars," a recurring column at MusiQology highlighting diverse voices across social media and aggregating them in a kind of thematic digital verse. Click here to read more.
How to Work in the Art World Without Selling Out Your Politics →
New York Magazine talked with Dr. Kellie Jones for their "Taking Care of Business" series. Click here to see what career advice she gives.
“Art Does Change Things”: A Conversation with Curator and Art Historian Kellie Jones →
Four Black Geniuses Among MacArthur Award Winners →
Click here to read NewsOne's profiles of Dr. Jones and all of 2016's African-American winners of the MacArthur Grant.
Columbia professor, alumna win MacArthur "genius" grants →
Columbia University's Columbia Daily Spectator celebrates the school's 2016 MacArthur Fellows. Click here to see what they had to say.
Jones ’81 Named MacArthur Fellow →
Dr. Jones sits down with her alma mater's newspaper to chat about collaboration and creating her own path. Read more here.
Longtime Champion of African-American Artists Kellie Jones Wins MacArthur Genius Grant →
Artsy.net sits down with Dr. Jones to talk about her passion for African American artists and how the MacArthur Grant may impact her future projects. See what she has to say here.
When Kellie Jones Wanted To Study Black Art History, The Field Didn’t Exist. So She Created It Herself. →
The Huffington Post has featured Dr. Jones in their "Inspiration Generation" series. Learn more about the trails that she's blazed in the art history world here.
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Kellie Jones: Art Historian, Curator and Champion of Black Artists →
Dr. Jones chats with the Wall Street Journal about the path to her career in art history and her family's influence. Read more here.
What this MacArthur winner, an expert in African American art history, plans to do with her grant →
Dr. Jones sits down with Jessica Gelt of the Los Angeles Times to discuss her work as an art historian and what she plans to purchase with her recently announced MacArthur Grant. See what she has to say here.
Neglected art of the freedom struggle →
Soldiers and Students, 1962, Jacob Lawrence (The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation)
On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the BBC takes a look back with Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. Read more here.
Bearing artistic witness in the ’60s →
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Barkley L. Hendricks’s “Lawdy Mama.”
Mark Feeney of the Boston Globe reviews Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. See what he says here.
Bear ‘Witness’ at the Brooklyn Museum of Art →
The New York Amsterdam News sits down with Dr. Jones to chat about Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. Click here to see what she had to say.
“Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties” →
David Hammons: The Door (Admissions Office), 1969, wood, acrylic sheet and pigment, 79 by 48 by 15 inches; in "Witness" at the Brooklyn Museum.
David Markus of Art In America Magazine reviews Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties." Read what he says here.
Art and the Movement →
Philip Guston, City Limits (1969). Credit: Brooklyn Museum
The Indypendent reviews Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. Read more here.