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Professor Gives Black Female Artists their Turn in the Spotlight

Frustrated by teaching classes on African American women artists with no textbook on the subject and only a cobbled together reading list of scholarly articles and exhibition catalogs, Professor Lisa Farrington decided to take matters into her own hands. Her solution was to write Creating Their Own Image, a collection of monographs published in 2005 on the work of various black female artists who, as a group, have been overlooked by academia.