Books & Chapters in Books

The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression and Reflection

Allworth Publishing (2022), edited by Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

 In The New New Corpse, Chicago: Green Lantern Press, 2015

Roundtable discussion in The Handbook of Textile Culture

Eedited by Janis Jefferies, Diana Wood Conroy and Hazel Clark, London: Bloomsbury, 2015

The Baartman Diaries

Foreword by Carla Williams, essay by Fo Wilson, Chicago: Studio W Editions, 2013 (purchase here)

Seeing Black and the Color of Form and Domestic Bodies

In Diasporic Women’s Writings of the Black Atlantic: (En)Gendering Literature and Performance. Emilia María Durán-Almarza and Esther Álvarez-López, editors, New York: Routledge, 2013

100 Assignments: The Future of the Foundation Course in Art and Design

Paris France: Paris College of Art Press (PCA), 2013

Selected Published Exhibition Essays & Reviews

Architectures of Space and Spirit: Expanding the Spatial Contract Within the White Cube

Short Essay From Expansions – A Response to How Will We Live Together? Expansion by Hakim Sarkis and Ala Tannir. 2021

Craft and Legacy: Writing a History, Preserving a Field

Essays by presenters at Haystack's 2019 Summer Conference. Monograph Series #35. 2019

It's All Wrong Tom

Tom Loeser: It Could Have Been Kindling, West Bend, WI: Museum of Wisconsin Art, 2015

“A ‘Remix’ of Diva Cool at 331/2 RPM”

International Review of African American Art, Vol. 24, No.2., 2013

“Seeing Black and the Color of Representation”

NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Vol. 2011, No. 29, Fall/Winter 2011

“The Changing Face of Craft”

International Review of African American Art, Vol. 22, No.2, 2009

"On Walls and the Walkers"

International Review of African American Art, Vol. 20, No.3, 2006

"The Maker as Evidence”

The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990, Studio 3, The Furniture Society, October 2005

"The Dissolution of 'Black Art?, An Exhibition and Book,"

International Review of African American Art, Vol. 19, No.2, 2003

"The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994,"

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and MOMA, International Review of African American Art, Vol. 18, No.4, 2002

"Looking for Miles Davis: The Sarch to Articulate an African American Design Aesthetic”

Communication Arts, Photography Annual, 2002

*writings available upon request