Publications

Works-In-Progress

Books

Patterns of Permanence: African Methodist Episcopal Architecture and Visual Culture (Book Manuscript in Progress).

Exhibition Catalogs & Edited Volumes

Editor, Temples of Hope: Gordon Parks at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church,(Gordon Parks Foundation & Steidl, forthcoming 2024).

Published Book Chapters and Exhibition Catalog Essays

“‘Think and Pray’: Verbrycke Spiritual Church and Ella Watson’s Religious Worldview,” American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson, Casey Riley, ed. (New York: The Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl, forthcoming January 2024) 

“Motion” (Section Introduction), Movements, Motions, Moments : Photographs of Religion and Spirituality from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Edited by Douglas Remley, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2023)

“Benny Andrews: Critically Constructing the American Figure,” Unforgettable: American Artists Reconsidered, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023).

“Afro-American Images: 1971 as Evidence: Charting Mid-Century African American Artists Networks,” Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks, Margaret Winslow, ed. (Delaware Art Museum, October 2021).

“Alma Thomas & St. Luke’s Episcopal Church,” Alma Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, Seth Feman and Jonathan Waltz, eds. (The Columbus Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum of Art, July 2021).

“People, Places and the Spirit World: Suzanne Jackson's Ecowomanist Art Practice,” Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades, Rachel Reese Ed. (Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA, October 2019).

“‘AfriCOBRA is a Continuum’: the 50 Year Legacy of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists,” AfriCOBRA: Evolution of a Movement, (Baltimore: Galerie Myrtis, September 2018)

“James Phillips: A Retrospective,” James Phillips: Swirling Complexity into Culture, (College Park: University of Maryland College Park Art Galleries, 2017). <https://issuu.com/umucachiever/docs/james_phillips_catalog_2017>.

“Black Power and Black Madonna: Charting the Aesthetic Influence of Rev. Albert Cleage, Glanton Dowdell & the Shrine of the Black Madonna, #1,”Rev.  Albert B. Cleage, Jr. and of the Black Madonna and Child, Jawanza Clark, editor, (New York: Palgrave McMillian, 2016).

Journal Publications

“Larry W. Cook” Contact Sheet, Light Work Annual 2021, 208 (New York: Light Work, summer 2022).

“Object Lesson: Aaron Douglas’s Building More Stately Mansions,” commissioned by Manual 14 Fall/Winter 2020, 23-35.

 “Preserving the Will to Adorn: African American Stained Glass Art Traditions,” International Review of African American Art, Vol. 29, No. 3, Spring 2020.

“Constructing and Circulating Black Madonnas as Black Power: Charting the Aesthetic and Cultural Influence of Shrine of the Black Madonna, #1.” Black Theology Papers Project, 2(1), Nov 2019. <https://doi.org/10.7916/btpp.v2i1.3853>.

“The Rhythmic Synergy of James Phillips: Assessing a Legacy of Black Collective Art Practice,” International Review of African American Art, Fall 2018.

“Biography: Jeff Donaldson,” Callaloo, Vol 40, Art 2017.

“Who I Am and Why: Faith Ringgold & A Multi-Generational History of Artistic Creation,” International Review of African American Art Plus, Oct. 2013 <http://iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu/page/Who-I-Am-and-Why>.