Board of Directors Election
2009 Candidates
Jacqueline Francis, California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University
Jacqueline Francis, California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University
Statement: For the last two years, I have served on the CAA Committee on Diversity Practices, which works to advance several of CAA’s most important objectives: to define diversity, to communicate its importance to our membership, and to provide strategies for achieving it in the cultural realms in which we operate. As an organization, CAA will be stronger through the recognition of existing diversity within our ranks and through clear articulation about its centrality to stated goals of increasing membership (and hence, revenue), promoting and expanding our services, and demonstrating our continued relevance as a resource nexus and network. This is the vibrant profile that we must present to current and future members, to partner organizations, and to philanthropies and other potential sources of support.
Biography: Jacqueline Francis is an art historian who specializes in African American, African diaspora, and American modern and contemporary art. A former Wyeth Fellow in American Art at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, she has taught at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Presently, she is senior lecturer in the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and lecturer at San Francisco State University. She earned her PhD at Emory University.
Francis has published articles, criticism, and reviews in American Art, Callaloo, Mississippi Quarterly, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Third Text, and has contributed essays to The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere (2005) and The Art of Romare Bearden (2003). Her book, Race-ing Modernism: Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Max Weber, and “Racial Art” in America, is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press. In addition, she is a contributor to and coeditor, with Ruth Fine, of a forthcoming anthology, Romare Bearden: American Modernist (Yale University Press).
Francis has presented her research at museums, scholarly conferences, and invited symposia in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe, including the meetings of the Association of Art Historians, the American Studies Association, CAA, and the Collegium on African American Research. She has served on several advisory boards and review committees, including the Detroit Institute of Art’s General Motors Center for African American Art, the National Gallery of Art’s Graduate Curatorial Internship selection committee, and the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Fellowship program.
A CAA member since 1995, Francis serves on the Committee on Diversity Practices and is a cofounder, with Camara Dia Holloway, of the Association for Critical Race Art History, a CAA affiliated society.
