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Early life and education
The artist was educated at a the School of Art.

Career
Richard J. Powell is an expert in African American art, American art, and race theory. Throughout his career he has written books on such topics, including James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art (1986) and his most recent publication Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020). Beyond his novels, Powell is also a professor of art and art history at Duke University, and has been teaching there since 1989. Powell was also briefly editor-in-chief of The Art Journal from 2007 to 2010. Additionally, Powell has aided in curating several art exhibits such as The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (1989) and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014), among several others. These exhibitions, like the rest of his work, typically have a focus on African American art and culture. For his work, Powell has received prestigious awards numerous times. Such awards include the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History in 2013 and, more recently, he was honored as the year's Distinguished Scholar at the annual College Art Association conference in 2016. His most recent publication, Going There: Black Visual Satire, is a novel focusing on black visual satire throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Examining paintings, cartoons, films, etc. Powell examines the social effects of satirical black art.

The artist's initial work focused on small scale conceptual pieces such as XYZ. During the early 2000s she became well known for the series of large pieces displayed at Art festival.

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