Contributors
- Contributors
Terry Boddie is a mixed-media artist, photographer, and educator. He received his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1989 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1997. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and most recently at the Brooklyn Museum in the show “Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art.” He has been the recipient of the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and Marie Sharpe Walsh Artist in Residence. Boddie is on the Artist Advisory Committee of the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Artist Advisory Board of En Foco. He teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and lives and works in West Orange, New Jersey.
David Boxer is an artist and director emeritus and chief curator of Jamaica’s National Gallery. Through exhibitions, publications, and his own artistic practice, he has played a central role in the history of Jamaican art. He has published on various aspects of Jamaican art, but most notably on Edna Manley, the Intuitives and, recently, Jamaican photography. Publications include the monograph Edna Manley: Sculptor (1990) and the survey Modern Jamaican Art (1998), which he coauthored with Veerle Poupeye. He has curated most of the National Gallery of Jamaica’s exhibitions since 1975, including the groundbreaking “Five Centuries of Art in Jamaica” (1975), the first historical survey of Jamaican art, and “The Intuitive Eye” (1979), from which the term intuitive was derived. As an artist, Boxer has exhibited widely in Jamaica and in major international exhibitions such as the 1996 Sao Paulo Biennial and the Havana Biennials of 1986 and 1997. Painting, collage, and installation art have been central to Boxer’s creative life. In the late 1980s he began his Memories of Colonization collage cycles. The latest development is the movement from declamatory triptychs (there were six triptychs created between 1995 and 1997, four of which were destroyed) to dialogues, which are featured in the present issue of Small Axe.
Tina Campt is associate professor of women’s studies and history at Duke University. Her publications include Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich (2004); and Der Black Atlantik (2004), coedited with Paul Gilroy. Her current project, “Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe,” engages family photography as a crucial site of cultural formation and articulation for two black European communities, black Britons and black Germans.
Hazel V. Carby is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, professor of American studies, and director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University (see http://research.yale.edu/irgg/index.html ). Her publications include [End Page 230] Reconstructing Womanhood (1987), Race Men (1998), and Cultures in Babylon (1999). She is currently completing a book titled “Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post World War II Britain.”
Petrina Dacres is a curator and the head of the art history department at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performance Arts, Kingston. She was educated at Emory University and Cornell University. In addition to her ongoing research on monuments and memory in the Caribbean, she is currently working on a short film on the practices of portraiture and masculinity in contemporary Jamaica.
Carole Boyce Davies is professor of Africana studies at Cornell University with appointments in English and comparative literature. She is the author of Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994) and Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008); coeditor, with Elaine Savory Fido, of Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (1990); and general editor of The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (2008).
Kevin Gaines is director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is author of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era (2006) and Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century (1996...
