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A New York Times op-ed piece: "What is Whiteness?" By Nell Irvin Painter, June 20, 2015 (The New York Times Sunday Review - Opinion): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/what-is-whiteness.html?_r=0 A piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Blue Period: An Origin Story," in The Atlantic.com, 1 April 2014: http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2014/04/the-blue-period-an-origin-story/359968/ Nell's Jefferson Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, November 7, 2013 (video, also audio only): http://gradlectures.berkeley.edu/lecture/caucasian/ Video of Nell's interview with Harry Kreisler, "Reflections of an Historian," in the Conversations with History series at the University of California, Berkely, November 7, 2013: http://conversations.berkeley.edu/content/nell-irvin-painter The Japanese edition of The History of White People.
Nell shared a session at the Miami Book Fair International with Randall Kennedy in November 2011. http://booktv.org/search.aspx?For=nell%20painter As a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom in October 2011, Nell lectured at the University of Edinburgh and Newcastle University: http://www.fulbright.co.uk/news-events/news/renowned-us-scholar-visits-uk-for-black-history-month Nell received a Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in May 2011: http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/centennial-medalists Nell Painter’s videos discussing Big Think Interview With Nell Irvin Painter: Nell Irvin Painter, a leading historian of the United States, is the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University. In addition to her earned doctorate in history from Harvard University, she has received honorary doctorates from Wesleyan, Dartmouth, SUNY-New Paltz, and Yale. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Nell Painter has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Antiquarian Society. She has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. Those presidential addresses have been published in the Journal of American History (“Ralph Waldo Emerson's Saxons” in March 2009) and the Journal of Southern History (“Was Marie White?” February 2008). The City of Boston declared Thursday, 4 October 2007 Nell Irvin Painter Day in honor of her Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center in 2006. A prolific and award-winning scholar, her most recent books are The History of White People (W. W. Norton, 2010, paperback, March 2011), Creating Black Americans (Oxford University Press, 2006), and Southern History Across the Color Line (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). A second edition of Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 and a Korean translation of Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol appeared in 2008. Her other books are also still in print. For a complete list of her book and article publications and other honors and activities, please consult the CV on this website. As a public intellectual, Professor Painter is frequently called upon for lectures and interviews on television and film. In January 2008 she appeared live for a three-hour “In Depth” program on C-SPAN Book TV. To see the program on the internet, go to the web page for “In Depth.” She has also appeared on Bill Moyers’s “Progressive America.” New Jersey Network’s “State of the Arts” documented her work as both a scholar and an art student. Her agent at Greater Talent Network is Edna Schenkel: <ednas@greatertalent.com> or 877-662-9200. Here is information on Nell Irvin Painter’s 2010 book, The History of White People:
The book can be ordered from W. W. Norton and from online booksellers. |
The French group Les Amis de Beauford Delaney protect the memory of the great American painter who lived and died in France. They discovered that Nell Painter had made work inspired by Beauford Delaney. NJTV video interviews include Nell Painter and shows her work. NJTV visits Emerge 11, an exhibit of 21 artists at Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Emerge is a group art show and also a professional development program for artists. NJTV spoke with the founding directior and five of the Emerge 11 artists, including Nell Painter. (Published on Oct 23, 2014) Nell Painter is mentioned in a review of the Emerge 11 group show in the Star-Ledger newspaper (Art Review: Emerge 11 at Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, in Newark). Here is an excerpt from that review, discussing Nell's work: "I think there's a lot of heart in this show," says Jorge Rojas, the independent curator who organized "Emerge 11," though he didn't choose the artists. The show is one of the rewards for acceptance into the program. "There's a lot of handwork. Most of the artists are younger than I am, but there's also Nell Painter. She had a distinguished career as a historian at Princeton University, concentrating in 19th century Southern American history, and then she decided to pursue a career in art, and went through the Rhode Island School of Design. And now she's showing these hypnotic abstractions based on an archival photograph of a dog fight in Brooklyn in the 1970s. You can still see the dogs, but they're like a memory buried in the picture." The entire Star-Ledger review can be read here: Nell in her studio with some of her artwork on the Newark Arts website: by Colleen Gutwein, Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project, http://www.newarkartsphotodoc.com. For more links to Nell Painter's art, please also see: Nell's page at the city without walls website: http://www.cwow.org/users/nell-painter. Nell's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nell.painter 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009-2010 2009 2008 Bathroom Book for Meena, 2013, collage on paper, 6 x 39” Digital self-portrait, 2013, digital image on paper, 19 x 13” CWCW User 86 Profile Image, 2013, digital collage on paper, 12 x 12”
CRC images, 2013, digital images, dimensions vary
Beloveds, 2013, digital collages on paper, each 5-1/2 x 5-1/2”
Art History Volume XXVII by Nell Painter, Ancestral Arts, 2013. Artist’s book, “Staples Edition,” 8 x 9-1/2” each page. Larger format T/K In spring 2012 Nell was artist-and-scholar in residence in the Department of African American Studies at Yale University. Her new art project was Odalisque Atlas (beauty + sex + slavery): http://www.yale.edu/afamstudies/events/index.html Evonne Davis, Nell, and Glenn Shafer at an opening at Aferro, an artist-run space in downtown Newark where Nell was an artist in residence 2011-2012. Evonne and Emma Wilcox run Aferro, which has been in its present location on Market Street for more than five years.
Black Sea Composite Maps 2012 Black Sea Composite Map 4
Black Sea Composite Map 8
Meena's Book 1.5, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 11 x 15" inspired by a poem by Meena Alexander, "When Asked What Sort of Book I Wish I Could Make." Back Man + Cook Diptych Left, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72". At Aferro, Nell's work turned to grisaille, a change inspired by the paintings themselves. Back Man + Cook Diptych Right, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72" Back Man + Cook 3, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 36-1/4 x 40" Back Man + Cook 2, 2011, acrylic + oil stick on canvas, 40 x 40" No Entre, 2011, acrylic + oil stick on canvas, 32 x 40" Nell Painter has earned her MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design! Here's the link to her page. Just click on the images to enlarge them. http://feed.risd.edu/thesis/2011-exhibition/student?student=npainter Nell's RISD MFA graduation, June 2011. Charles Botsman-Feimster beside Nell's painting Back Man 1 in the RISD 2011 MFA show.
Nell's studio at the Rhode Island School of Design in the winter of 2011, with Lucille Fornasieri-Gold's photos on the wall with Nell's paintings. Nell received a BFA degree in painting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey in May 2009 (while she was actually serving as a visiting professor at the University of Rome Tre). As the Virtual Artist in Residence of the Creative Research Center of Montclair State University in New Jersey, her work can be seen at http://www.montclair.edu/creativeresearch/index.html. Here are other examples of her student artwork. Postcard, digital media, 4.25 x 6" Anthroposociology, colored ink, gouache and collage on Yupo, 11 x 14" Aug-Sept 2010 collage on yupo 3, colored ink, gouache and collage on Yupo, 11 x 14" Ecclefechan, colored ink, gouache and collage on Yupo, 11 x 14" Follow me, colored ink, gouache and collage on Yupo, 11 x 14" Unfashion J, colored ink and collage on Yupo, 9 x 12" Unfashion 5, colored ink and collage on Yupo, 9 x 12" Beauty: Odalisques, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 60 x 60" Sublime: Apollo, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 60 x 60" Beauty + the Sublime: Jackson, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 60 x 60" Ingres etching + map, hand-painted etching, colored ink on paper,
In November-December 2008 Nell Painter created a series of paintings inspired by Brooklyn photographs by Lucille Fornasieri-Go ld in the Brooklyn Historical Society. Here are four from that series, ink and gouache on paper, all 22" x 30".
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