#IBAF SYLLABUS (Digital Online Resources/ Library Resources)

Digital Online Resources

Interesting Essays

• “But Black Women are Not Cocoons: I’m Tired of Being Expected to Mother Black Men and Applaud When They Finally Grow Up” by Josie Pickens
• “Mister Cee and How We Talk About Sexual Identity Today” by Lenee A. Voss

Interviews With Black Women Artists

• bell hooks by Lawrence Chua
• Cauleen Smith  by Leslie Hewitt

Syllabi

• Lemonade
• Hidden Figures

Websites, Archives, Links  and Articles By, For and About Black Women Artists

• Websites
  • Black American Feminisms: An Interdisciplinary Biography
  • Culture Type
• Archives
  • Soul Pictures (Dr. Michelle Wallace’s Archive)
  • ” Betye Saar, 92, is Taking Steps to Secure Her Legacy While Forging Ahead with New Artwork and Exhibitions” by Victoria Valentine
• Historical Links
  • “Fire Destroyed Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s Home and, With It, a Major Cultural Legacy” by Philip Kennic
• Articles About the Perpetual “New Comer” Status of Black Artists in General and Black Women Artists in Particular
  • ” Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price” by Hilarie M. Sheets
  • “Black Artists and the March Into the Museum” by Randy Kennedy
  • “Overlooked in Atlanta, Black Female Artists Try Miami”  by (tbd)

 

Library Resources

• Books
  • Books about Black Women Visual Art
    • Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists by Lisa Farrington
    • Faith Ringgold by Lisa Farrington
  • Books About Beyoncé Knowles Carter
    • Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter by Veronica Chambers
    • Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

• Feature Films
  • Eve’s Bayou dir by Kasi Lemmons
  • The Color Purple **dir by Steven Spielberg (I included this film because it is based on the novel by Alice Walker)
  • Daughters of the Dust dir by Julie Dash

• Documentaries About Black Women Artists
  • And Still I Rise dir by Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules (About Maya Angelou)
  • Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart dir by Tracy Heather Strain
  • A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde dir by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson