Scholarship | Porter Colloquium

Scholarship: The Colloquium | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

The James A. Porter Colloquium is an annual three day scholarly program exploring African American art history and cultural development. Started in 1990 by art historian, Dr. Floyd Coleman, the Porter Colloquium is the foremost academic setting for innovative dialogue and perspectives from leading and emerging scholars, artists, collectors, and cultural critics.

2007 | 18th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium
Migration, Globalization: Developing New Art Historical and Critical Narratives in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora
April 19-21, 2007
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2006 | 17th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium
Art, Artists, and Activism: The Black Arts Movement Revisited, Recontextualized
April 20-22, 2006
Forged out of a sense of connectedness to revolutionary struggles in Africa and elsewhere, the 1960's witnessed the exponential growth of radical thought among Black Americans, an unbridled quest for creative and intellectual freedom. This quest became known as the Black Arts Movement. The 17th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium seeks to re-examine and re-contextualize the Black Arts Movement by bringing to this forum many of the artists, activists, scholars and cultural workers who were actual participants in the movement, as well as younger scholars who have been seriously engaged in researching the art of this period and young artists who are indebted to the groundbreaking work of artists who defined the Black Arts Movement. More>>

2005 | 16th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium
Canonical Formations: Meanings, Interpretations, Valuations
April 14-16, 2005
Our 2005 Porter Colloquium theme, commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Professor James A. Porter’s birth, draws from the core of Professor Porter’s work in defining African American art as a distinct area of study in American art history. More>>

Colloquium Archive (2003 – 1990)

2004 | 15th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium
Setting the Standards: Voices of Resistance and Empowerment
April 23-24, 2004

2003 | 14th Annual Colloquium
Memory, Metaphor and Gender: Black Women in Art and Visual Culture
April 18-19, 2003

2002 | 13th Annual Colloquium
Collecting, Collectors, And Collections
April 5-6, 2002

2001 | 12th Annual Colloquium
Migrations and the Diaspora: Caribbean and African American Connections
April 6-7, 2001

2000 | 11th Annual Colloquium
Converging Images: Printmaking and Photography in African American Art
April 7-8, 2000

1999 | 10th Annual Colloquium
African American Art and Spirituality
April 15-17, 1999

1998 | 9th Annual Colloquium
Re-Examining African American Art & Culture of the 1960's
April 16-18, 1998

1997 | 8th Annual Colloquium
Recent Research in African American Art
April 18-19, 1997

1996 | 7th Annual Colloquium
Memory, Remembering, and Visual Narrative; Seven Decades of African American Art
April 5-6, 1996

1995 | 6th Annual Colloquium
Reading Between the Lines: Issues in African American Art and Art Historiography
April 21-22, 1995

1994 | 5th Annual Colloquium
Postmodernism, Deconstructionism, Multiculturalism and African American Art
April 22-23, 1994

1993 | 4th Annual Colloquium
Out of Invisibility: Interpreting and Redefining African American Cultural Express in the Crafts
April 1993

1992 | 3rd Annual Colloquium
Contemporary Trends and Issues II
April 10-11, 1992

1991 | 2nd Annual Colloquium
Contemporary Trends and Issues
April 7, 1991

1990 | Inaugural Colloquium
March 31, 1990