Camara Dia Holloway
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Lecture next week 4/16
Romare Bearden Foundation presents the Cinque Artist Program Series at Harlem School of the Arts James L. Allen: Artist-Photographer of the Harlem RenaissanceWith Dr. Camara Holloway During the Harlem Renaissance, James Allen photographed Harlem’s luminaries and enjoyed a successful career as an award-winning artist. When the story of the Renaissance was later written, though, his name…
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Performing Black Womanhood
Originally posted on NWCDTP Online: Adjoa Osei is a PhD Researcher of Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool, funded by the AHRC and the Duncan Norman Scholarship. She was a fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, resident from October 2018 until April 2019. She completed an MPhil in Portuguese Studies at…
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SAVE THE DATE: Upcoming Talk in DC on 03/02
I’m gearing up for my “Afrochic” talk at CAA this Friday (!) but soon after that I will be heading to my natal city of DC to give another talk about some relatively new research of mine at the Library of Congress. Chocolate City Peeps come check it out! Adjoa Osei – PhD Researcher, University…
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TEASER: CAA2019 Afrochic presentation
Happy New Year! If you are planning on attending CAA2019, I will be presenting the paper, “Afrochic: Race and the Emergence of American Fashion,” on the following panel: Race in the History of Design: Objects, Identity, Methodologies | Design Studies Forum (formerly Design Forum: History, Criticism and Theory) | New York Hilton Midtown – 2nd Floor –…
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Teaser: Afrochic
I haven’t posted in a while and recently when I have shown my face I invariably get asked what I have been up to so here is a little a taste of the research that I will be presenting at a CAA2019 talk titled, “Afrochic: Race and the Emergence of American Fashion.” Above are some…
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Coming this fall: “Say It with Pictures”
Organizers Amy Mooney and Deborah Willis have kindly invited me to participate in this project on black photographers in Chicago in the early 20th century. Check it out on social media @sayitwithpics and @sayitwithpicsthenandnow and see more at sayitwithpictures.org
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Harlem on my mind (forthcoming essay on Dawoud Bey’s photos of Harlem)
“Harlem: Found Ways” is a new exhibition opening today at The Cooper Gallery at Harvard University that “presents artistic visions and engagements specific to Harlem, New York City, in the last decades.” Check it out if you are in Cambridge this summer! And, look for an essay by yours truly in the exhibition catalogue reflecting on Dawoud…
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I love archives: The amazing Katherine Dunham
Eighty years ago this month, an anthropologist named Katherine Dunham made her New York City dance debut at the 92nd Street Y. The 28 year old Chicago native choreographed and performed with her own company of dancers as part of “A Negro Dance Evening” organized by fellow dancers Edna Guy and Allison Burroughs. Born in […]…
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The hard copy of my essay arrived!
The illustrations for my Brooklyn Rail essay, “The African Roots of Modern Fashion,” garnered me a beautiful two-page spread. Go Afrochic!
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New essay published on Afrochic
My piece, “The African Roots of Modern Fashion,” is a part of the lastest Brooklyn Rail Critics Page on art and fashion edited by Alexandra Schwartz. It provides some insight into my current research. Pleased to be in the company of Valerie Steele, Juliet Bellow, Rhonda Garelick, and Saya Woolfalk! I offer up another Afrochic…
CAMARA DIA HOLLOWAY 