Join us as art historian and distinguished professor Dr. Richard Powell takes the stage to delve into the world of Alexander Calder and Thaddeus Mosley. Powell will explore themes in Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder as they relate to American art and the African Diaspora.
In addition to teaching courses in American art and the arts of the African Diaspora, Richard J. Powell has written on a range of topics, including such titles as Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Black Art: A Cultural History (1997, 2002, 2021), Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008), and Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020). Powell has also organized numerous art exhibitions, most notably Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997), To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999), Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary (2005), and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014). From 2007 until 2010, Powell was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, the worldâs leading English language journal in art history. Powell is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Powell received his Master's in Philosophy. and PhD in the History of Art from Yale University.
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