Erica Moiah James

  • Erica Moiah  James
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Teacher, Curator
Principal country concerned : Column : Fine arts, Heritage


Erica Moiah James is Assistant Professor in the Departments of The History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Before arriving at Yale she served as the founding Director and Chief Curator of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Dr. James earned the master of fine arts from The University of Chicago and a doctorate degree in art history from Duke University. While at Duke she was awarded several fellowships including the International Association of University Women graduate fellowship and The John Hope Franklin Fellowship. Since that time she has served as a Clark Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and as a post-doctoral teaching fellow at Washington University, St. Louis.



Professor James has curated more than a dozen exhibitions and has published more than thirty essays and exhibition catalogues, most recently "Speaking in Tongues: Metapictures and the Discourse of Violence in Caribbean Art" (Small Axe 37, 2012) and "Blue Curry: Art, Image and Objecthood" (ARC, 2012). In 2012 she also completed a four-year book project focused on one of the largest private collections in the Caribbean entitled Love and Responsibility: The Collection of Dawn Davies (2012). Professor James is currently finalizing a manuscript entitled Caribbean Art in The Global Imaginary, working on an essay focused on the political aesthetics of the American artist Charles White, and co-editing a special issue of MaComere Journal (UToronto, 2014) on the art of women artists from the global Caribbean.

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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