Speakers
- Amy Mooney
- Columbia College Chicago, Associate Professor
Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago. Her publications include the monograph Archibald J. Motley, Jr. and contributions to anthologies and catalogues including Beyond Face: New Perspectives in Portraiture (2018), Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014), Black Is Black Ain’t (2013). She has been awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Terra Foundation for American Art. With Dr. Deborah Willis, she recently launched a digital humanities project entitled “Say It with Pictures” that recovers and examines the work of Chicago’s African American photographers from the 1890s into the 1930s. She is the 2019-2020 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford and is completing Portraits of Noteworthy Character: Negotiating a Collective American Identity (forthcoming with Duke University Press) which investigates the ways that individuals and institutions looked to the portrait as a means to effect social change.