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Richard J. Powell
Richard J Powell (born May 31, 1953) is an American writer and an educator. He has been teaching art and art history at Duke University since 1989 and continues to do so to the current day.

Powell was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 31, 1953. [1] Powell received his B.A from Morehouse College, Atlanta, and his M.F.A. (with a specialty in printmaking) at Howard University, Washington DC. After graduating, he went on to earn a doctorate in art history at Yale University, New Haven. [2]

Early life and Education
Powell received his B.A from Morehouse College, Atlanta in 1975, and his M.F.A. (with a specialty in printmaking) at Howard University, Washington DC in 1977. After receiving his M.F.A, Powell went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to complete a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Museum Education, where he gained an interest in art criticism and the organization of art exhibitions.

After briefly teaching in Virginia, he went to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. There, he earned his M.A. in African American Studies (1982) and his M.Phil. (1984) and Ph.D. (1988) in Art History. At Yale, Powell was awarded with the Fulbright Scholarship, allowing him to go to the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and other Scandinavian countries in order to conduct dissertation research there.

Career
Powell is the the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University, where he has been teaching since 1989.[3]

He is most known for his work focusing on Black art history. His volume in the Thames and Hudson's World of Art series, Black Art: A Cultural History, is often credited as a beginning point for any students interested in Black art history.[4] Other notable works by Powell include Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture, and Going There: Black Visual Satire, the latter focusing on the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker and Spike Lee.

In 1980, Powell curated his first exhibition, "Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics" at Studio Museum in Harlem. He has also curated exhibits at the Phillips Academy’ s Addison Gallery of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. [5] In 2014, Powell curated an exhibition at Duke University's Nasher Museum entitled, "Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist," focused on Harlem Renaissance painter Archibald Motley's work, specifically his work documenting the nightlife scene. [6]

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). [7] Beyond his novels, Powell is also a professor of art and art history at Duke University, and has been teaching there since 1989. [7] Powell was also briefly editor-in-chief of The Art Journal from 2007 to 2010. [8] 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. [8] These exhibitions, like the rest of his work, typically have a focus on African American art and culture.

Powell has received a number of prestigious awards for his work. 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. [8] His most recent publication, Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020), 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. [9]

== Awards, Nominations, and Honors ==
 * 2019 Edmund J. Safra Visiting Professorship. Center for Advances Study in the Visual Arts, Natural Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
 * 2018 Membership. American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * 2017 James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence. American Academy in Rome, Italy
 * 2016 Spirit of the Center Award, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture
 * 2016 Chercheur invite. Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, France
 * 2016 France Distinguished Scholar Session, College Art Association
 * 2013 Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
 * 2012 Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge Affiliated Faculty. John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
 * 2012 Acadia Summer Art Program Residency, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Fabric Workshop and Museum
 * 2012 James A. Porter Award for Excellence in African American Art Scholarship. Howard University
 * 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

Books

 * Powell, Richard J. Going There: Black Visual Satire (Accepted). Richard D. Cohen Lectures on A, 2020.[11]
 * Powell, Richard. Archibald Motley Jazz Age Modernist, 2015.[12]
 * 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.[13].
 * 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. Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance. London[u.a.] : Hayward Gallery, 1997.
 * Powell, R. J. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
 * 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.

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. [14]
 * 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. [15]
 * 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. [16]
 * 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. [17]
 * Powell, Richard J. “Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” Art Bulletin 95, no. 4 (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.[18]
 * 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. [19]
 * Powell, R. J. “Margo Humphrey, printmaker." Artist and Influence v. 5 (1987).
 * Powell, Richard J. “William H. Johnson's Minde Kerteminde.” Black American Literature Forum 20, no. 4 (1986): 393–393.[20]
 * 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. [21]
 * Powell, R. J. “Black Folk art 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. “Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman.” The International Review of African American Art 10, no. 3 (n.d.).