Texts


[in order by date, newest first]

“The Art of Erasure: The Restoration and Conservation of the Portrait of Une femme du couleur libre from Antebellum New Orleans,” in Jones, Nicholas R., Christina H. Lee, and Dominique E. Polanco, eds. The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production. Routledge Companions. Routledge, 2025.

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“Mickalene Thomas Boldly Imagines the Interior Lives of 19th-Century Black Sitters—and Brings Them into the Present,” ARTnews (December 2023)

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“Engineering Joy as an Act of Resistance,” Hyperallergic (January 2024)

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“Object Care: a tale of erasure, restitution, and possible resolution,” 64 Parishes, Fall 2022

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“to glance through her curtains: Sara Madandar’s The Window at The Front, New Orleans,” burnaway, January 2022

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“Re-Natured: Chanell Stone’s Natura Negra Series,” on-off.site, 2021

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Not Betsy, on-off.site, 2020

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CRISIS MODE: artistic narratives of resilience, OCCCA, 2020

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The Art of Erasure: a Story of a Portrait of a Free Woman of Color from Antebellum New Orleans, MA Thesis, Tulane University, 2019

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Wrought Together: The Ironworks of New Orleans’ French Quarter, Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2018

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The Art of Erasure, Iron Lattice, 2017

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