Congratulations to Professor Sarah Lewis for being selected to the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow class. Established in 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program awards scholars whose works address important issues confronting our society.

 

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A new HBO documentary, “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches”, will air on February 23rd at 9 pm. In the film, five of the seminal anti-slavery activist’s speeches will be performed, with context provided by scholars including Professor Sarah Lewis and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Find out more here. Read more about “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches”, new HBO documentary featuring Professor Sarah Lewis

Professor Sarah Lewis spoke with the Harvard Gazette about the recent “October Files” journal she edited with HAA doctoral candidate Christine Garnier which explores the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems.

“It is no exaggeration to say that Carrie Mae Weems, an extraordinary artist and thinker, is one of the most prodigious artists of our time. I am so grateful that my colleagues Benjamin Buchloh [Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art] and Carrie Lambert-Beatty [Professor of HAA and Art, Film, and Visual Studies] kindly invited me to edit this volume...

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The APA and the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) are pleased to announce that Professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize for her paper, “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law.” The paper formed the subject of Professor Lewis's graduate seminar "American Racial Ground" in the Fall of 2020. It was published in Art...

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A new volume of October Files, edited by Professor Sarah Lewis, explores the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems—her invention and originality, the formal dimensions of her practice, and her importance to the history of photography and contemporary art. Since the 1980s, Weems (b. 1953) has challenged the status of the Black female body within the complex social fabric of American society. Her photographic work, film, and performance investigate spaces that range from the American kitchen table to the nineteenth-century world of historically Black Hampton University...

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Professor Sarah Lewis and the Vision & Justice Project were the focal points of this year’s Frieze New York Art Fair. The Vision & Justice Project, founded by Professor Lewis, is rooted in education and is dedicated to examining art’s central role in understanding the relationship between race and citizenship in the United States. The tribute intends to explore this examination and expand the reach of the Vision & Justice Project, to give potential new audiences access to a visual literacy that could change the way they see the world...

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Professor Sarah Lewis was recently interviewed by artnews.net as part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month.

The full article is available to read on the artnews.net website

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Professor Lewis' article "Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law" is now available to read in volume 79 of the College Art Association's Art Journal. The full article is available to read on the CAA website.

 

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