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= Richard J. Powell =

Early life and education
Richard J. Powell was born, 1953 in Chicago, USA. After receiving his B.A. at Morehouse College in 1975, Richard J. Powell earned the M.F.A. in printmaking from Howard University in 1977. After receiving his M.F.A. from Howard University, Powell completed a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Museum Education at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art where he became interested in art criticism and organizing art exhibitions. He then earned a M.A. in Afro-American Studies (1982), a M.Phil in Art History (1984), and a Ph.D in Art History (1988) at Yale University.

In an interview he was asked what it was like attending two HBCU's (historically black colleges and universities) where he states: I spent lots of time looking at the Atlanta University’s fantastic collections. And at Howard, I spent lots of wonderful moments with people like painter Lois Mailou Jones, and the printmaker James Lesesne Wells, sculptor Ed Love and Jeff Donaldson [painter and chair of the Howard University school of art in the 1970s]. So, the irony here is that by the time I got to Yale in 1980, I had read a good body of African American and African literature, I had done theater at Spelman, and I was in a play with Samuel L. Jackson!

So when I'm hanging out with folks like Henry Louis “Skip” Gates and all the [scholarly] luminaries at Yale, I had already got a really good foundation in the culture. And all I needed was to take it to the next step. So I always celebrate and give praise to historically Black institutions, because I wouldn't be who I am, or doing what I'm doing, had it not been for them.

Career
Powell has accomplished many things. Most noticeably is his vast writing on an array of topics. However he also has curated many exhibits with one of his most recent being Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in 2014 which toured nationally. He also was editor-in-chief at The Art Bulletin from 2007-2010. In addition, Powell is currently the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University, where he has taught since 1989.

He is a recognized authority on African American art and culture, having written extensively on the topic. Published in 2020, one of his more recent books, Going There: Black Visual Satire, Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Powell argues that it has a distinctly African American lineage. Going There interweaves discussions of such works as the midcentury cartoons of Ollie Harrington, the installations of Kara Walker, the paintings of Robert Colescott, and the movies of Spike Lee.

Books

 * Powell, Richard J. Going There: Black Visual Satire. Richard D. Cohen Lectures on A, 2020.
 * Powell, Richard. Archibald Motley Jazz Age Modernist, 2015.
 * Powell, Richard J. African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012.
 * Powell, Richard J. Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries. Miller Publishing Company, Ltd., 2009.
 * Powell, Richard J. Who Am I in This Picture? Amherst College Portraits. Amherst College, 2009.
 * Powell, R. J. Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
 * Powell, R. J. Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
 * Powell, R. J. Black Art: A Cultural History. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2002.
 * Powell, R. J. Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2002.
 * Powell, R. J. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
 * Powell, R. J. Jacob Lawrence. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1992.
 * Powell, R. J. Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
 * Powell, R. J. From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the Washington Area. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989.
 * Powell, R. J. James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1986.
 * Powell, R. J. Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, n.d.

Academic Articles

 * Powell, Richard J. “The Brown Paper Bag Test.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018, no. 42–43 (November 1, 2018): 234–49.
 * Oliver, V. C., and R. J. Powell. “Reminiscing: Valerie Cassel Oliver and Richard J. Powell in conversation.” Callaloo 40, no. 5 (January 1, 2017): 53–162.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Eyes of Donyale Luna.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016, no. 38–39 (November 2016): 14–21.
 * Oliver, Valerie Cassell, and Richard J. Powell. “"Richard Powell/'Say it Loud': An Interview with Richard Powell by Valerie Cassel Oliver".” Callaloo 38, no. 4 (2016): 985–95.
 * Oliver, Valerie Cassell, and Richard J. Powell. “"Richard Powell/'Say it Loud': An Interview with Richard Powell by Valerie Cassel Oliver".” Callaloo 38, no. 4 (2016): 985–95.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Rechercher et imaginer l’art « black » américain depuis 2005.” Perspective, no. 2 (December 31, 2015): 81–94.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” Art Bulletin 95, no. 4 (December 2013): 646–49.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Freeman Henry Morris Murray: Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” The Art Bulletin 95 (December 2013): 646–49.
 * Powell, Richard J. “The Woodshed.” Studies in the History of Art 71 (2011): 199–206.
 * Powell, Richard J. “'Paint That Thing!' Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism.” American Studies 46 (2010): 107–19.
 * Powell, Richard J. “The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 25 (February 2008): 157–68.
 * Powell, Richard J. “PAINT IN THE NAME OF LOVE.” International Review of African American Art 22, no. 2 (2008): 64–65.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Linguists, Poets, and ‘Others’ on African American Art.” American Art 17 (March 2003): 16–19.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Appreciation. Jacob Lawrence: Keep on Movin’.” American Art 15 (March 2001): 90–93.
 * Powell, R. J. “On Alain Locke and James Porter.” Hatch Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence 11 (1998): 1–8.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Cinqué: Antislavery Portraiture and Patronage in Jacksonian America.” American Art 11, no. 3 (October 1997): 49–73.
 * POWELL, R. J. “ART, HISTORY, AND VISION.” Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1995): 379–82.
 * Powell, R. J. “Art of the Harlem Renaissance.” Art Bulletin 77 (September 1, 1995): 132–37.
 * Powell, R. J. “The Subject in/of Art History.” The Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1, 1995): 515.
 * POWELL, R. J. “IMAGES AND IDENTITIES + EDITORIAL - A BRIEF, INTRODUCTORY NOTE.” International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (1994): 6–6.
 * Powell, R. J. “The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored.” New Observations 97 (1993): 10–15.
 * Powell, R. J. “What Becomes a Legend Most? Reflections on Romare Bearden.” Transition 55 (1992): 62–72.
 * Powell, Richard J. “"In My Family of Primitiveness and Tradition": William H. Johnson's "Jesus and the Three Marys".” American Art 5, no. 4 (October 1991): 21–33.
 * Powell, R. J. “Margo Humphrey: Interview.” Hatch Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence 5 (1987): 56–65.
 * Powell, Richard J. “William H. Johnson's Minde Kerteminde.” Black American Literature Forum 20, no. 4 (1986): 393–393.
 * Powell, R. J. “On Exhibit: Black Artists of the Nineteenth Century.” The Chicago Reader, August 16, 1985, 10–11.
 * Powell, Richard J. “African Art at the Field Museum.” African Arts 18, no. 2 (February 1985): 24–24.
 * Powell, R. J. “Black Folk in America, 1930-1980.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 1984, 11–18.
 * Powell, R. J. “Current Expressions in Afro-American Printmaking.” Printnews 3 (April 1981).
 * Powell, R. J. “The Afro-American Printmaking Tradition.” Printnews 3 (February 1981): 3–7.
 * Powell, R. J. “9/9.” The New Art Examiner 7 (June 1980): 10–11.
 * Powell, R. J. “Houston Conwill.” Neworld, February 1979.
 * Powell, R. J. “Talking to James Lesesne Wells.” Print Review 9 (1979): 65–75.
 * Powell, R. J. “Images and Identities: A Brief, Introductory Note.” The International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (n.d.): 6–6.
 * Powell, R. J. “Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman.” The International Review of African American Art 10, no. 3 (n.d.).

Awards and nominations

 * 2016 Spirit of the Center Award, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture
 * 2016 France Distinguished Scholar Session Honoree, College Art Association
 * 2013 Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
 * 2009 Wilbur Cross Medal for Distinguished Alumni, Yale University
 * 2007 The Voyager Foundation, Publication Subvention Grant
 * 2005 Humanitarian Award, National Conference of Artists
 * 1995 Fellowship, National Humanities Center
 * 1995 Ford Foundation Fellowships/Postdoctoral, National Academies
 * 1992 Fellowships for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities
 * 1986 Ford Foundation Fellowships/Dissertation, National Academies