Friday, December 12, 7 to 9pm
ACA Galleries
173 Tenth Avenue, New York
Join author, art historian, and distinguished professor, Lisa Farrington, in conversation with Kandy G Lopez about her new book, Black Artists in Their Own Words.
About Lisa Farrington
Lisa Farrington is an award-winning leader in the field of African American art history. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York; and served as Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Director of the Gallery of Art at Howard University. Farrington won the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Prize, the Spelman College / Atlanta University Endowed Chair in the Humanities, a Ford Foundation Education Fellowship and three national awards for her Oxford University Press book on the history of African American women artists. She is winner of two Lifetime Achievement Awards from artist Faith Ringgold’s Anyone Can Fly Foundation and from Howard University’s Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art. She has lectured at museums and universities worldwide and published ten books in as many years, including a revisionist history of African American art—her second book for Oxford University Press. Farrington was also senior art historian at Parsons School of Design for 16 years and Founding Chair of the Art & Music Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice / CUNY. Her latest book, "Black Artists: in Their Own Words," part of the renowned "Documents of 20th Century Art" / University of California Press series, has recently received a prestigious Kirkus "starred review."
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