Tag: Kenneth Macpherson

SAVE THE DATE: Newberry Seminar 10/04!

  • Elisabeth Welch by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
  • Edna Thomas, 1936
  • Florence Mills by Edward Steichen, 1924
  • Paul Robeson by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
  • Nina Mae McKinney, 1930

I will be participating in this year’s American Art and Visual Culture Seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago on Friday, October 4th.

Check it out if you are in the area:

https://www.newberry.org/10042019-camara-holloway-association-critical-race-art-history-and-anne-monahan-fashion-institute

My paper is entitled, “Dark Stars, Bright Ambitions: Black Celebrity in Jazz Age NY/LON” and I will be sharing more of my research from my Harlem-on-Thames project.