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Dr Kellie Jones, Professor in Art History and Archaeology and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University has been admitted to the degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa. The honour was conferred in a ceremony marking The Courtauld’s Class of 2022.
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Left to right: Alwyn Cohall, Amy Herbert, Carrie Walker, Kellies Jones, Kendall Thomas, Mabel O. Wilson, Costis Maglaras, Felice Rosan, Flores Forbes, Melissa Begg, Olajide Williams, Olger Twyner, Geraldine Downey, Gina Wingood, Goleen Samari, Orin Hershkowitz, Peter Pilling, Rafael Lantigua, Julie Franks, Julie Kornfield, Kellie Bryant, Renotta Young, Sam Sia, and Wafaa El-Sadr.
“In March, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced the creation of the Columbia Community Advisory Council, a new effort to support and expand partnerships and programs with community leaders and organizations in Harlem and Upper Manhattan.”
Read the full article here to learn more about the advisory council and hear from Dr. Jones - as one of the recently introduced new members - about why she is excited about the work.
Dr. Jones is featured in PIN-UP ’s “Women of New York” story in the magazine’s Spring/Summer 2022 issue. Take a look at her interview with Emmanuel Olunkwa, and order your copy here to read the full story.
Tittle Press has crowned Mickalene Thomas one of its best fashion, art, and photography coffee table books of 2022. Learn more here.
Mickalene Thomas is one of W Magazine's most anticipated coffee table books of 2022. Read more here.
BET.com included Mickalene Thomas in its "What to Watch, Read, Listen to & Experience" feature. See what they had to say here.
Photo by Michael DiVito.
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies has entered its fourth year with a new chair at the helm, Kellie Jones, the Hans Hofman Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and a MacArthur fellow. She has big plans for the department, which include furthering the work done by her predecessor as chair, Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin.
Read more from Dr. Jones’s interview with Columbia News here.
"A consortium of nonprofits purchased the Johnson Publishing Archive for $30 million last July. The goal was to safeguard the unparalleled collection for the public benefit. Now a significant next step in the process has been announced. The co-owners have established an advisory council to evaluate and interpret the collection and provide guidance about its preservation, use, and related programming. The advisory council is chaired by Carla Hayden, who serves as Librarian of Congress." Read more of Culture Type's coverage of this council, which includes Dr. Jones, here.
"The archive, which tells the history of Black Americans from World War II through the civil rights movement and the 1990s, will allow viewers to see moments in the lives of iconic individuals and activists—such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Maya Angelou and Shirley Chisholm—in addition to athletes, artists, entertainers, poets, politicians, students, writers and everyday people. A collaboration between several prominent arts foundations, the consortium will safeguard these cultural treasures for the public, with the advice of council chair Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, as well as Louise Bernard, Dawoud Bey, Darlene Clark Hine, Meredith Evans, Jonathan Holloway, Kellie Jones, Richard Powell, Brent Staples, Jacquelyn Stewart and Deborah Willis."
Click here to read more about the Historic Johnson Publishing archive and the newly announced advisory council that will “inform the preservation and future use of the historic photographic collection…to ensure the archive is made available for broad public use.”
The nonprofit consortium that acquired Johnson Publishing Co.’s photo archive for $30 million at auction has named an advisory council to oversee curation and programming around the historic collection here in its hometown before it’s turned over to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Dr. Jones is proud to serve on the advisory council that will oversee this curation and programming. See what the Chicago Sun-Times had to say here.
Dr. Jones was named to the advisory council that is tasked with informing "the preservation and future use of the historic" Johnson Publishing Archive, "the most significant collection illustrating African American life in the 20th century." Read more here.
Dr. Jones was honored at this year's "Women of Substance and Style" reception, hosted by Philadelphia retailer Joan Shepp. Read more here.
Culture Type included Dr. Jones in its preview of this year's College Art Association conference. Read more here.
Dr. Jones is one of seven jurors who have been appointed to select the inaugural Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Residency artist. The residency was established as a memorial to Robinson, whose "work explored the Middle Passage, black migration, and early experiences growing up in Poindexter Village, a close-knit public housing community in Columbus, Ohio." Read more about this MacArthur fellow and the residency that was established in her honor here.
South of Pico has been named one of the best art books of the decade by ARTNews! Described as “one of those key art-historical texts that might make you ask yourself why you didn’t know more about its subject matter,” South of Pico is one of just twenty-six books to receive this honor. Read more here.
Dr. Jones was interviewd by Joelle Te Paske of the College Art Association earlier this fall. Check out the interview here to learn about what she worked on this summer, what she's looking forward to, and what unexpected career path she considered before becoming an art historian.
Dr. Jones had the opportunity to join in celebrating Lorna Simpson for receiving the 2019 Getty Medal. Read more about celebration dinner and view the video honoring Simpson here.
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… is set to open at the Portland Art Museum, and Dr. Jones interviewed the artist for the accompanying publication. Read more here.
Black Voice News covered The 1619 Project, the groundbreaking interactive project released by The New York Times to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the United States. Read more here.
In South of Pico, Dr. Jones discusses the establishment of the Museum of African American Art (MAAA) in Los Angeles and it's role in the African American art community in Los Angeles in the 1970s. The MAAA continues to serve this purpose today from its long-time location in the most unexpected of places. Learn more about the museum's department store location and it's enduring legacy in this profile from LAist.