Not Your Grandfather’s Art History: A BIPOC Reader

FAIN: AE-284483-22

Connecticut Board of Regents of Higher Education (Manchester, CT 06040-6449)
Olivia Chiang (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

A two-year resource development project that would result in a digital reader for introductory courses in global art history.

Manchester Community College seeks to create an academic art history Reader authored primarily by scholars of Color which features analytical essays devoted to the art, culture, and historical perspectives of traditionally marginalized communities. The Reader will highlight the scholarship of authors who identify as BIPOC, and also properly and adequately compensate them for their work. Each essay will be an object-focused and thesis-driven analytical paper that is tailored to an introductory/community college audience. The goal of the Reader is to provide our students with increased representation in the voices and images they are exposed to in the classroom and to introduce them to excellent examples of writing to inform their own learning in an accessible format. The Reader will be hosted on Smarthistory.org, a leader in open-educational art history resources, and will always be a free and open-access resource for our students, faculty, and the general public.

Associated Products

"Not your grandfather's art history: A BIPOC Reader" (Web Resource)
Title: "Not your grandfather's art history: A BIPOC Reader"
Author: Dr. Kelli Morgan
Author: Dr. Maya Harakawa
Author: Dr. Frank Mitchell
Author: Dr. Surana Singh
Author: Dr. Surekha Davies
Author: DY Begay
Author: Dr. Adriana Greci Green
Author: Dr. Cécile Fromont
Author: Marie Watt
Author: Dr. John Ludavic
Author: Dr. Carmen Fracchia
Author: Dr. Yuka Kadoi
Author: Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Author: Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick
Author: Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith
Author: Dr. Arathi Menon
Author: Dr. Kate Lowe
Author: Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford
Author: Dr. Mia Bagneris
Author: Dr. Marika Sardar
Author: Dr. Mey-Yen Moriuchi
Author: Dr. Eiren Shea
Author: Dr. He Zhang
Abstract: "Not your grandfather's art history: A BIPOC Reader" is an open-access resource available on Smarthistory.org. This anthology includes a foreword, 20 content essays, and a teaching resource, authored largely by scholars of color, on topics that seek to expand and nuance canonical presentations of art history. Topics range from the ancient to contemporary periods and are designed to be easily integrated into existing survey humanities and art history curricula.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: http://smarthistory.org/bipoc-reader/

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