Speakers
- Bernida Webb-Binder
- Spelman College, Assistant Professor
Bernida Webb-Binder received her PhD in the History of Art and Visual Studies from Cornell University. She is Assistant Professor of Art History & Curatorial Studies in the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College. Her research area is Pacific art and blackness in the United States and Oceania. Her dissertation, Affinities and Affiliations: Black Pacific Art in the United States and New Zealand, 1948-2008, was supported by a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. In it, she compares visual representations of the female body of color of and by Pacific and African American women to uncover shared perspectives on identity, genealogy, diaspora and indigeneity. Her broader interests are photographic portraiture, body adornment and performance, and narrative and identity. She is currently working on two projects: a visual biography of Tony Award-winning actress Juanita Hall and a survey of art in the United States created by Pacific American artists.