I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. My research focuses on representations of black figures in the decorative arts of eighteenth and nineteenth century France.
I am also a museum educator.
Writing
Black Block, Triple Canopy
New Look (On the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem), Apollo
The Silly and Sublime Art of Sèvres, Apollo
In Touch with the Galaxy: The Art of Lorna Simpson, The Nation
The Female Glaze, Apollo
Past and Future: The Art and Automatons of Kara Walker, The Nation
Malcolm Was Here, New York Review of Architecture
The Cosmopolitan Modernism of the Harlem Renaissance, The Nation
Hard Times: The Radical Art of the Depression Years, The Nation
A Painter Himself: Juan de Pareja and the entangled histories of art and slavery, The Nation
Museum Pessimism, n+1
Art Should Not Be an Investment Vehicle for Rich People, Interview with Tabitha Arnold, Jacobin
Why Columbia Graduate Workers Like Me Are on Strike, Jacobin
Jacob Lawrence Went Beyond the Constraints of a Segregated Art World, Jacobin
Looking at Art, Regarding History: Gallery Teaching in a Gilded Age Mansion, Journal of Museum Education
My work as a children’s book author and illustrator is here.
