Finley is completing a project on the current migration crisis in the Mediterranean and at the US/Mexico Border titled Visualizing Travel, Gendering Diaspora, with professors Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael- Hernandez.

Finley’s current project is Black Market: Inside the Art World, about the work of black artists in the global art economy, focusing on the relationship among museums, curators, biennials and tourism.įunded by a two-year American Council of Learned Societies collaborative faculty grant, Dr. Committed to Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon and My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South are two of her recently published works. Her prolific critical attention to photography has produced the coauthored publications Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story Harlem: A Century in Images and Diaspora, Memory, Place: David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Pamela Z. Finley has contributed essays and reviews to Aperture, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, American Quarterly and Art Forum. An art historian, curator and contemporary art critic, Dr. in African American Studies and History of Art from Yale University. Professor Finley traced how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators.Ĭheryl Finley is Associate Professor of Art History at Cornell University. Cheryl Finley, Cornell University art historian, participated in a book signing and discussion on how an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Morgan.Ĭommitted to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton University Press) by Dr. Africa House was delighted to co-host “Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon” – Cheryl Finley in Conversation with Jennifer L.

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