James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art

The James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora is an annual event hosted and sponsored by Howard University.

James Porter is recognized as the "Father of African American art history." His book, Modern Negro Art, is the first comprehensive study of African American Art in the United States. In 1990, his Howard colleague, art historian Floyd C. Coleman, created the colloquium to recognize Porter for his distinguished career as an art professor, art department chair, and university art gallery director.

Since its founding, the Porter Colloquium has served as a forum for art historians, artists, curators, collectors, and art dealers in the field of African American Art. The annual gatherings have explored issues in the historiography of African American art, promoted diverse artistic perspectives, presented forward-thinking scholarship, and opened doors for the advancement of African American artists and art historians who study art of the African Diaspora.

History

References

External links

• Porter Colloquium, Howard University

• THE JAMES PORTER COLLOQUIUM

Further reading

• Alain Locke, Negro Art: Past and Present (Washington, D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936)
• James Vernon Herring, The Negro in the American Scene: Exhibition of Paintings of Negro Subjects by White American Artists (Washington, D.C.: Howard Univ. Gallery of Art, 1942)
• James A. Porter, Modern Negro Art (1943)
• David C. Driskell, Two Centuries of Black American Art (1976)
• Richard Powell, From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art & Ideology in the Washington Area (Washington, D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989)
• Constance Porter Uzelac, James A. Porter, Artist and Art Historian: The Memory of the Legacy (Washington, D.C.: Howard Univ. Gallery of Art, 1992)
• Deborah Willis, Reflections in Black (2000)
• Michael D. Harris, Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation (2003)
• Lisa Farrington, Creating Their Own Image (2005)
• Constance Porter Uzelac, ed., James A. Porter, 1905–1970, From Me to You: The Works of James A. Porter (New York: N’Namdi, 2006)
• Lisa Farrington, African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017)