Curriculum Vitae
Selected Published Articles
New York Times Lens, “From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter: Honoring Black Mothers Who Lost Their Sons”, January 2019
New York Times Lens, “Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply”, December 2018
New York Times Lens, “Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance In Harlem”, November 2018
New York Times Lens, “How Photography Has Shaped Perceptions of African Women”, November 2018
New York Times Lens, “40 Years of Hip-Hop Photos”, October 2018
New York Times Magazine, “Two New Shows That Celebrate Black Women Artists”, March 2017
New York Times Lens, “A Witness to Youth Culture in Burkina Faso”, January 2017
New York Times Lens, “A Difficult Harvest for America’s Black Farmers”, October 2016
New York Times Lens, “Malick Sidibé: Creative Force of African Culture”, April 2016
New York Times Lens, “Amid Bay Area Gentrification, One Man’s Three-Year Struggle”, January 2016
New York Times Lens, “Japanese Americans Imprisoned but Unbowed During WWII”, December 2015
New York Times Lens, “Sugar, Slavery and Scotland: A Sweet Forgetting”, October 2015
New York Times Lens, “Chester Higgins’s Homage to Ethiopia”, May 2015
International Review of African American Art, “Derrick Adams Brings a Practical Edge to Conceptual Art”, April 2015
New York Times Lens, “Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta”, March 2015
New York Times, Metropolitan Section, “Fear and Pride”, October 2014
New York Times Lens, “Gay Africans Seeking Asylum in New York”, October 2014
Ebony.com, “40 Years of ‘for colored girls…’: Loving Ntozake Shange Fiercely”, October 2014
Nueva Luz photographic journal, “On Shared Cultures and the Power of Transcendence in Photography”, February, 2014
Artvoices Magazine, Samuel Levi Jones Art Review, December 2013
HYCIDE Magazine, “Gladiator School”, on photographer Jamel Shabazz, September 2013
International Review of African American Art, “My Country Has No Name”, on artist Toyin Odutola, August 2013
Ebony.com, “Long Distance Revolutionary Tells the Mumia Abu-Jamal Story”, May 2013
UPTOWN Magazine, “Robert Glasper and Friends Pay Homage to Stevie Wonder”, December 2012
HYCIDE Magazine, “Cocaine Ballet” on dancer/performance artist Storyboard P, October 2012
HYCIDE Magazine, “Highpoints” on photographer Chester Higgins, Jr., August 2012
HYCIDE Magazine, “The God of Small Things” on photographer Nema Etebar, July 2012
HYCIDE Magazine, “The Tombs”, on filmmaker Jerry LaMothe, June 2012
HYCIDE Magazine, “Bulletproof Love”, March 2012
HYCIDE Magazine, “Hottentot Venus”, February 2012
HYCIDE Magazine, “Quiet Women Don’t Make History” on photographer Phillis Kwentoh, December 2011
HYCIDE Magazine, “Steel and Velvet”, on photographers Jamel Shabazz and Akintola Hanif, June 2011
HYCIDE Magazine, “Still Life”, on photographer Richard Maitland, June 2011
UPTOWN Magazine, “New Jack Swing” on musicians Me’shell Ndegeochello and Jason Moran Tribute to Fats Waller, May 2011
UPTOWN Magazine, “Souls of Black Folk” on Jamel Shabazz, January 2011
UPTOWN Magazine, “Interview with Artist Kadir Nelson”, December 2010
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
March 2019
Author: A Womb of Violet: An Anthology, limited edition risograph artbook
June 2018
Featured: Newark Women: From Suffragettes to the Statehouse by Barbara Kukla
November 2017
Featured: MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, essay
November 2014
Featured: “Dark Girls”, Bill Duke, Shelia P. Moses, Barron Claiborne
January 2013
Featured: “The Politics of Intersectionality: Urban Black Women and Resistance”, Dr. Zenzele Isoke
August 2012
Managing Editor, HYCIDE Magazine, Issue Four
February 2012
Managing Editor, HYCIDE Magazine, Issue Three
November 2011
Author: OPEN: an erotica journal (a collection of short stories, poetry and photography)
October 2011
Managing Editor, HYCIDE Magazine, Issue Two
June 2011
Managing Editor, HYCIDE Magazine, Premiere Issue
PRESS
“Editors’ Picks: 16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week: Brunch with Feminists in Residence” Artnet, February 2019
“New Hip-Hop Exhibition Leads Newark Public Library’s Black History Month Celebration”, Brick City Live, February 2019
“Newark Students Graduate From Poetry Camp”, News 12, August 2018
“Rave Reviews for Newark’s Open Doors Arts Festival”, WBGO, October 2017
“The World As Seen By Black Female Photographers,” Vogue, October 2017
“Dr. Ntozake Shange’s seminal work gets a gallery’s worth of consideration in new exhibit”, Brick City Live, October 2017
“An Art Scene Grows in Newark”, Village Voice, October 2017
“As Construction Cranes Loom, Newark Tries to Keep True to its Art Hub Rep”, August 2017
“Artists Transform City Without Walls gallery into meditation center”, Star-Ledger, February 2017
“What to Do in Newark, New Jersey”, Vogue, February 2017
RESIDENCIES
2019-2020 Artist in Residence, Shine Portrait Studio
2019 Feminist in Residence, Project for Empty Space, Feminist Incubator Program
2019 Critical Studies Artist in Residence, The Center for Photography at Woodstock
COMMISSIONS
“Magnitude and Bond”, Mural, Four Corners Public Arts, A Womb of Violet, Layqa Nuna Yawar and Kelley Prevard
November 2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Narrative Threads”, Project for Empty Space, March 2019
“Curator’s Choice 2”, The Gallery Space, November 2017
“THE HOLDOUT: Derrick Adams – A Social Sculpture with Curated Music Program” Featured Artist and Host, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, March 2015
“Know Who You Are At Every Age”, Featured Artist/Writer, Curated by Edwin Ramoran with BDGRMMR, Bronx River Arts Center, April 2014
“Behind Enemy Lines: The Politics of Choice”, Co-Curator, Russell Aldo Murray Gallery, Newark, NJ, January 2011
“Reflections: Music Speaks”, Project Manager and Curatorial Assistant, Russell Aldo Murray Gallery, Newark, NJ, July 2010
“Fresh: A Kaleidoscope of Sound”, Project Manager and Curatorial Assistant, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, June 2005
PUBLIC PROGRAMS, PERFORMANCES, AND LECTURES
Black Portraiture(s) IV: The Color of Silence, Harvard University, March 2018
Moderator: Afro-Cuba
The Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival, Co-Founder, Newark, NJ
The Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival Youth Skateboarding Clinic, Project Manager and Organizer, Newark, NJ, July 2005 – 2016
In Conversation with Faith Ringgold, Newark Museum, October 2016
“Portals Newark: A Global Public Art, Research and Technology Initiative”, Portal Curator, Shared Studios, Gateway Projects, Projects for Empty Space, April – June 2016
“Senses of Freedom”, Co-Curator, National Poetry Workshops and Performances, September 2014
“Haikus 4 Sundiata”, Co-Curator, National Poetry Campaign, May 2014
Political Prisoners and Literary Activism, Film Screening and Panel Discussion, Guest Speaker, Essex County College, Newark, NJ, October 2013
Sadie Nash, Guest Speaker, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, August 2012
State of Black Writers Conference, Guest Speaker, Essex County College, Newark, NJ, October 2011
Art Sanctuary, Celebration of Black Writing Workshop, Featured Writer, Philadelphia, PA, June 2011
Black August Film Screening and Discussion, Guest Speaker, Essex County College, Newark, NJ, March 2011
BlackLight, Poetry Performance and Guest Artist, Directed by Dr. Aimee Cox, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, March 2011
BlackLight, Poetry Performance and Guest Artist, Directed by Dr. Aimee Cox, The Living Theater, NYC, March 2011
BlackLight, Poetry and Dance Collaborative Performance, Directed by Dr. Aimee Cox, Brecht Forum, NYC February 2011
National Hip Hop Political Convention, Senior Producer, Newark, NJ, June 2004
EDUCATION
1997 New Jersey City University
1994 Morgan State University
Journalism Major/African-American Studies Minor