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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

Year (Annual) Title / Theme Co-Sponsors Speakers and Moderators Reference
2024 (34th) Art Legacies, Aesthetic Futures: Art at Howard University David C. Driskell Center, The Phillips Collection, Terra Foundation for American Art Melvin Edwards, Phylicia Rashad, Huey Copeland, Steven Nelson, Jonathan P. Binstock, Raimi Gbadamosi, Melanee C. Harvey, Rebecca Van Diver, Jada Adkinson, Edward T. Welburn, Mark Bartley, Cheryl Miller, Tatum Sabin, Samir Meghelli, Kelis George, Adrienne Childs, Denise Murrell, Elyse Nelson, Jessica Bell Brown, Camille Brown, Taylor Aldridge, Jane Carpenter-Rock, Rhea Combs, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Gwendolyn Everett, Jacqueline Carmichael, Larry W. Cook, Elka Stevens, Reginald Pointer, Sandy Bellamy, Bryten Gant, Takovah Townsend, Maria Fenton, Adrian Loving
2023 (33rd) Shaping Space: African American Artists in Public Art and Private Collections David C. Driskell Center, National Gallery of Art Steven Nelson, Phylicia Rashad, Raimi Gbadamosi, Melanee C. Harvey, Mabel O. Wilson, Sandy Bellamy, Curtis Clay, Ronnie McGhee, Nea Maloo, Uzikee Nelson, Keith Morrison, Camille Brown, Melvin Edwards, Tobias Wofford, Renée Ater, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Njena Jarvis
2022 (32nd) Fearless Endeavors: Daring Art History Methodologies and Art Practices David C. Driskell Center Sarah Lewis, Alvia Wardlaw, Kimberly D. Jacobs, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Gwendolyn Everett, Huey Copeland, Bisa Butler, Betye Saar, Lillian Thomas Burwell, Stephanie Sparling Williams, Lorraine O’Grady
2021 (virtual) Defining Diaspora: 21st Century Developments in Art of the African Diaspora. David C. Driskell Center, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Erica Moiah James, Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis, Kobena Mercer, Renée Stout, Curlee Raven Holton, Larry Cook, Aïda Muluneh, Natalie Hopkinson, Akili Tommasino, Willis “Bing” Davis
2020
2019 (30th) Critical In/Sight: Contemporary Developments in the History and Practice of Black Visual Culture David C. Driskell Center, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Sandra Jackson-Dumont (book donation for all attendees) Nicole Fleetwood, Margo Natalie Crawford, Raél Jero Salley, Lanisa Kitchener, Steven Nelson, Lola Flash, Martina Dodd, Janell Pryor, Monica O. Montgomery, Anthony Barboza, William T. Williams, Sylvia Snowden, Krista Thompson, Richard Powell, Mel Harvey, Kimberly Drew, Larry Cook, Jordana Moore Saggese, Renee Stout, Michelle Renee Perkins, Courtnee Fenner, Halima Taha, Rachel Grace Newman
2018 (29th) Abstraction: Form, Philosophy, & Innovation (including Black Abstractionism) Gwendolyn Everett, Gregory N’namdi, Kesha Bruce, Gregory Coates, Melani Douglass, Nikki A. Greene, Charles Brock, Michèle Gates Moresi, Tobias Wofford, Seth Feman, John A. Tyson,

Tuliza Fleming, Robin Veder, Romi Crawford, Kevin Tervala, Evelyn Hankins, Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis, Victor Ekpuk, Lanisa S. Kitchiner, Chakaia Booker, Jessica Stafford Davis, Adrian Loving, Zoma Wallace, Melissa Messina, LeRonn P. Brooks, Margo N. Crawford, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Fred Eversley, James Maurelle, Amber Robles-Gordon, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Torkwase Dyson, Edward Spriggs, Reginald Pointer

2017 (28th) The Everlasting Now Lorna Simpson, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Dawoud Bey, Fred Wilson (artist), Adger Cowans, Kellie Jones, Bridget R. Cooks, Lopez Matthews Jr., Andrea Jackson, Pellom McDaniels III, Stephanie Smith, Scott Baker, Gwendolyn Everett, Anthony McEachern, Dalila Scruggs, Gwendolyn Shaw, James D. Smalls, Kirsten Buick, David C. Driskell, Melanee C. Harvey, Larry Cook, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Margaret Rose Vendryes, Cynthia Hodge, Kimberly Camp, Kelli Morgan, Alexsandra Mitchell, Catrina Hill, Tina Campt, Chanda Laine Carey, Tiffany E. Barber, Elka Stevens, Marilyn Nance, Sarah Lewis, Allen Jackson
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010 (21st) Fearless: Risk Takers, Rule Breakers, and Innovators in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora David C. Driskell Center, District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Black Artists of DC exhibit), The Historical Society of Washington, DC Elizabeth Catlett, Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Floyd W. Coleman, Gwendolyn H. Everett, Jacqueline Francis, Okwui Enwezor, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, James Donaldson, Teresia Bush, Jacqueline Francis, Winifred Owens-Hart, Kirsten P. Buick, Theresa Leininger-Miller, Lisa Farrington, Renee Cox, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ashanti Chaplin, Elka Stevens, Gary Lampley, Teri Agins, LaQuan Smith, Constance Porter Uzelac, Robert Hall, Tuliza Fleming, Nico Wheadon, Thomas Stanley, Alvah Beander, Michael D. Harris, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Bill Adler, Cey Adams, Naomi Beckwith
2009 (20th)
2008 (19th)
2007 (18th) Migration, Globalization: Developing New Art Historical and Critical Narratives

in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora

David C. Driskell Center, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, PNC Bank Robert Farris Thompson, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Floyd Coleman, Bennie F. Johnson, Gwendolyn Everett, James Donaldson, Coni Porter Uzelac, Janell Blackmon, Phyllis Jackson, Jacqueline Francis, Mary Ann Calo, Dasha Halkin, Lyneise Williams, John Bowles, Courtney Martin, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Nana Mtendaji, Pamela Franco, Cheryl McKay Dixon, Nkiru Nzegwu, Cheryl Finley, Jefferson Pinder, Iona Rozeal Brown, Zoe Charlton, Mark Bradford, Allan Gordon, Carol Ann Duncan, Leland Swanson, Tess Schwab, Raymond G. Dobard, Wendell Brown, Arthur Monroe, Shirley Woodson Reid, Frank Smith, Jeffreen Hayes, Teresia Bush, Mary Schmidt Campbell
2006 (17th) Art, Artists, and Activism: The Black Arts Movement Revisited, Recontextualized David C. Driskell Center, JP Morgan Chase, PEPCO Faith Ringgold, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Akua McDaniel, Ethelbert Miller, Murry Depillars, Gwendolyn Everett, James Donaldson, Coni Porter Uzelac, David Taft Terry, Carol R. Dyson, Valerie Maynard, Kay Brown, Frank Smith, Nelson Stevens, David C. Driskell, Tritobla Hayes Benjamin, Jeffreen Hayes, Ruth Fine, Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Kymberly Pinder, Gina Maria Lewis, Lisa Farrington, Curlee Holton, Betty Blayton-Taylor, Lowery Stokes Sims, Sandra Davis, Freida High Tesfagiorgis, Eleanor Traylor, Haki Madhubuti, Roy Lewis, Bennie F. Johnson, Lisa Gail Collins, Margo Crawford, Cherise Smith, Aziza Claudia Gibson Hunter, E. J. Montgomery, Margo Humphrey, Akili Ron Anderson, James Phillips, Chandra Cox, Kirsten P. Buick, Gregory Carr, A.B. Spellman, Sandra Epps, Allison Bolah, Grace Hampton, Adrienne Hoard, Cheryl Finley, Rebekkah Mosby, Juliette Harris, Camille Billops, Marta Reid Stewart, Jefferson Pinder, Winston Kennedy, Babatunde Lawal
2005 (16th) Canonical Formations of African American Art and Art History David C. Driskell Center Floyd Coleman, Bennie F. Johnson, Gwendolyn Everett, Richard English, Coni Porter Uzelac, Teresia Bush, Leslie King Hammond, Linda Crocker Simmons, Jeffreen Hayes, Gwendolyn Everett, Sandy Bellamy, Scott Baker, Peter Robinson, Teixeira Nash, Edward Jesse Shaw, Sharon Patton, Edmund B. Gaither, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Richard A. Long, Sandra Davis, Alvia Wardlaw, Dewey Mosby, Patricia Hills, Allan Gordon, Raymond Dobard, Kellie Jones, Al Smith, Keith Morrison, Deborah Willis, Lisa Collins, Margo Crawford, Adrienne Childs, Franklin Sirmans, Kristopher J. Cheeves, Imani Perry, Clecia Queiroz, Lou Stovall, Akili Ron Anderson, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Salah Hassan, Juliette Harris, Rebekah Mosby, David C. Driskell
2004 (15th) Setting the Standards: Voices of Resistance and Empowerment Riggs National Bank Gwendolyn Everett, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Coni Porter Uzelac, Sandra Davis, Arturo Lindsay, Glen McNatt, Donna Wells, Winston Kennedy, Michael D. Harris, Bennie F. Johnson, Robert Steele, Kathryn Coney, Margaret Hutto, Deirdre Bibby, Kimberly Camp, Deborah Willis, Jeffreen Hayes, Tosha Grantham, Krista Thompson, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Isolde Brielmaier, Jeremy Austin, Renee Stout, Danny Simmons, Gerald Cyrus, Michael Platt, Floyd Coleman
2003 (14th) Memory, Metaphor and Gender: Black Women in Art and Visual

Culture: : In honor of Samella Lewis

Renee Ater, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Kirsten Buick, Valerie Cassel, Sonya Clark, Floyd Coleman, Lisa Gail Collins, Doris Crusoe, Justine Presha DeVan, Bed Ellerson, Lisa Farrington, Cheryl Finley, Nicole Fleetwood, Leslie King Hammond, Michael D. Harris, Mary Jane “MJ” Hewitt, Margo Humphrey, Sandra Jackson, Meta DuEwa Jones, Teresa Leininger-Miller, Gina Lewis, Nashormeh Lindo, Valerie Maynard, E. J. Montgomery, Winnie Owens-Har, Kebedech Tekleab, Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis, Lauren Turner, Coni Porter Uzelac, Joyce Wellman, Carla Williams, Deborah Willis, Shirley Woodson
2002
2001(12th) Migrations and the Diaspora: Caribbean and African American Connections Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture Edmund Barry Gaither, Margaret Bernal, Veerle Poupeye, Jerry Philogene, Pamela Franco, Teresia Bush, Evelyn Hawthorne, Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Fritz Racine, Nestor Hernandez, Winston Kennedy, Ben Jones, Francisco Cabral, Michael Auld, Roberta McLeod, Steven C. Newsome, Leslie King-Hammond, Marta Moreno Vega, Dietra Montague, Osvaldo Mesa, Marta Moreno Vega
2000 (11th) Converging Images: Printmaking and Photography in African American Art Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, David C. Driskell, and Constance Porter Uzelac. Floyd W. Coleman, Steven C. Newsome, Roshini Kempadoo, Stephen Marc, Wendel A. White, Jennifer Morris, Constance Porter Uzelac, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Alvia Wardlaw, Leslie King-Hammond, Winston Kennedy, Allan Edmunds, Claude Ellliot, Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Arthe Anthony, Camara Holloway, Denise Andrews, Donna M.Wells, Michele L. Simms-Burton, Deborah Willis, Bill Gaskins, Clarissa Sligh, Dawoud Bey, Dennis Callwood, Remy Gastambide, Talib Haqq, Mark Williams, Michael Harris, Kellie Jones, Lisa Gail Collins, Ademola Olugebefola, Mei-Tei-Sing Smith
1999 (10th) Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
1998 (9th) Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990 (1st) The Inaugural James A. Porter Symposium in African Art Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Murray N. DePillars, David C. Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Dorothy B. Porter

References

  1. James A. Porter. Anacostia Community Museum. https://anacostia.si.edu/collection/spotlight/james-a-porter
  2. Valentine, Victoria L. (2017-04-02). "Art Capital: Nearly 500 Gather at National Gallery of Art to Discuss African American Art in 20th Century Washington". Culture Type. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
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  4. ^ "About the James A. Porter Colloquium | Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts". finearts.howard.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  5. "James A. Porter | Modern Negro art : with eighty-five halftone plates". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
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  8. "Shaping Space: African American Artists in Public Art and Private Collections". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
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  13. Art, Department (2017-04-01). "Program Booklet: 28th Annual James Porter Colloquium". 28th Annual James Porter Colloquium.
  14. Art, Department (2010-04-01). "Program Booklet: 21st Annual James Porter Colloquium". 21st Annual James Porter Colloquium.
  15. Art, Department (2006-04-01). "Program Booklet: 17th Annual James Porter Colloquium". 17th Annual James Porter Colloquium.
  16. Art, Department (2006-04-01). "Program Booklet: 15th Annual James Porter Colloquium". 15th Annual James Porter Colloquium.
  17. Art, Department (2003-04-01). "Program Booklet: 14th Annual James Porter Colloquium". 14th Annual James Porter Colloquium.
  18. ^ Art, Department of, "Program Booklet: 12th Annual James Porter Colloquium" (2001). 12th Annual James Porter Colloquium. 1. https://dh.howard.edu/portercolloquium_12/1 Note: see introductory paragraph, “ In 1998, the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture joined the Howard University Art Department in sponsoring the 9th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium and has subsequently served as a co-sponsor.”
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  21. ^ Art, Department (2000-04-01). "Program Booklet: 11th Annual James Porter Colloquium". 11th Annual James Porter Colloquium.
  22. Event flyer: Howard University College of Fine Arts Announces its Annual Spring Festival March 29 - April 5. On the Spring Festival flyer, "March 31," is the dated listed for the inaugural Porter Colloquium. Moorland Spingarn Research Center. Howard University. 1990.
  23. Brochure: Howard University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art. The Inaugural James A. Porter Symposium in African Art. Saturday, March 31, 1990. 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. College of Fine Arts, Department of Art. Lulu Vere Childers Hall. Room 3001. Howard University.

External links

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)
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