Ep.144 features Dr. Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film, and the ethics of representation, focusing on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Her latest curatorial project, a virtual, multimedia exhibition for Google Arts and Culture, examines the value of Afrofuturism in times of crisis. Dr. Barber is currently Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California-Los Angeles as well as curator-in-residence at the Delaware Contemporary. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, she was Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. Dr. Barber is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize. Photo credit: Jawara King Website Tiffany E. Barber – Scholar/Curator/Writer (tiffanyebarber.com) National Portrait Gallery https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/national-portrait-gallery-announces-winner-2022-directors-essay-prize-scholars UCLA https://arthistory.ucla.edu/faculty-profiles/tiffany-barber/ University of Delaware https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/barber Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/738214/national-portrait-gallery-directors-essay-prize-winner-2022/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/tiffany-e-barber/ Southern Cultures https://www.southerncultures.org/article/looking-for-abolition/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyelizabethbarber/ Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/blondell-cummings-moving-pictures-2022-review Book Print Collective https://www.bookprintcollective.com/tiffany-e-barber Mixed Race Studies https://mixedracestudies.org/?tag=tiffany-barber Quarantine Public Library https://www.quarantinepubliclibrary.com/how-to-break-up-with-white-supremacy-by-tiffany-barber

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