Camara

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Holloway

Dr. Camara Holloway is the Project Manager for the Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute. Her research expertise is on twentieth century American and African American art, with special knowledge of African American photography and critical race art history. She is the founding co-Director of the Association of Critical Race Art History. Holloway’s graduate work was at Yale University and her undergraduate work at Barnard College. She has previously taught at the University of Delaware, the University of Southern California, Swarthmore College and Sarah Lawrence College. Holloway curated the exhibition, “Portraiture & the Harlem Renaissance: The Photographs of James L. Allen” at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1999, which rescued the Harlem Renaissance photographer from obscurity. Her most recent publication is the essay, “Dark Stars: Reinventing Blackness in the Interwar New York-London Circuit,” in the peer-reviewed journal American Art.