![]() ![]() ![]() Finley has contributed essays and reviews to Aperture, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, American Quarterly and Art Forum. ![]() An art historian, curator and contemporary art critic, Dr. in African American Studies and History of Art from Yale University. Professor Finley traced how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators.Ĭheryl Finley is Associate Professor of Art History at Cornell University. Cheryl Finley, Cornell University art historian, participated in a book signing and discussion on how an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Morgan.Ĭommitted to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton University Press) by Dr. Africa House was delighted to co-host “Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon” – Cheryl Finley in Conversation with Jennifer L. ![]()
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