Clark University MFA in Visual Arts Worcester, MA
Thesis shows and Jan residency hosted by MASS MoCA
Recommended Reading
An Evolving List of Suggested Resources By and About BIPOC Artists
email mfa at lesley.edu to make additions
BOOKS
Rebecca Belmore, Facing the Monumental
Maurice Berger, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Maurice Berger, White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness
Jane Blocker, Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh, Human Archipelago
Aruna D’Souza, Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts
Coco Fusco, Only Skin Deep
Adrian Heathfield and Tehching Hsieh, OUT OF NOW: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
Lorraine O’Grady and Aruna D’Souza, Writing in Space, 1973-2019
Claudia Rankine, Citizen (review by Dan Chiasson, “Color Codes”)
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Kara Walker, A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be
Deborah Willis and Carla Williams, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History
Publications by Deborah Willis
ARTICLES
Anita Hill Interviews Mark Bradford, “Great Master Painter of the Twenty-First Century”
James Baldwin, “The Creative Process”
Claire Bishop and Nikki Columbus, “Free Your Mind: A Speculative Review of #NewMoMA”
Anne Anlin Cheng, “Ornamentalism: A Feminist Theory for the Yellow Woman”
Daniel Dyer, “The Light of the World”
Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Difference Without Separability”
Coco Fusco, “Still in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Twenty Years Later”
Édouard Glissant, “For Opacity”
Mark Graham, “An Interview with the Artist Fred Wilson”: The Journal of Museum Education (Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2007)
Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price, “Decolonizing Art History”
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, “The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study”
Glenn Ligon, “Black Light: David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness”
Helen Molesworth, “Art Is Medicine: Helen Molesworth on the Work of Simone Leigh”
Alondra Nelson, “Future Texts”
Megan O’Grady, “Arthur Jafa in Bloom”
Jacoba Urist, “Does ‘American Art’ Exist Anymore?”
Jack Whitten, Section of “Notes from the Woodshed”
VIDEOS
Crystal Bridges, “Carrie Mae Weems on Identity, Relationships, & More”
DREAMWEAVERS: In / Conversation - Ming Smith and Arthur Jafa
DREAMWEAVERS: In / Conversation - Carrie Mae Weems and Terence Nance
Mark Bradford, “The 60 Minutes Interview”
Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh, “Human Archipelago” Conversation + Video Adaptation
Arthur Jafa, “My Favorite Artwork”
Tehching Hsieh, “Lesley MFA Art Talk, January 2019”
Doris Salcedo, “Lesley MFA Art Talk, January 2021”
Sarah Sze, “How We Experience Time and Memory Through Art”
Jack Whitten, “An Artist’s Life”