History of African American women artists 10/06/11

History of African American women artists 10/06/11, Lisa Farrington, chair of the department of art and music at John Jay College, will present "Creating Their Own Image: History of African American Women Artists" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at the Miami University Art Museum. Her talk is in conjunction with the exhibition "Out of the Shadows: The Rise of Women in Art."

Farrington will discuss the struggles and triumphs of black women artists from slavery to the present and examine the ways in which they counteracted black female stereotypes such as the Mammy, the Matriarch and the Jezebel.

Farrington specializes in race and gender in visual culture and Haitian Vodou art. She was previously senior art historian at Parsons School of Design and was the 2008 William and Camille Cosby Endowed Scholar at Spelman College. She is the 2010 winner of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for a new book on artist Emma Amos. She is author of 10 books: Her book on the history of African American women artists has received three literary awards including the American Library Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature.

Her lecture, free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the art museum, the Center for American and World Cultures and the black world studies program. TEXT CREDIT: Miami University News and Public Information Office Glos Center Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 (513) 529-7592 (513) 529-1950 fax newsinfo@muohio.edu