Meet the Art Market wiki team, and complete your first assignment by creating your Art Market Identity under your name below. Add
a picture or a video, and a handful of links, so that we can learn more abouteach other and why we chose this course:
Cheryl Finley I am an Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at Cornell University as well as an art critic, columnist and curator
specializing in photography, African American art, cultural heritage tourism and the politics of memorialization. Prior to my appointment at Cornell,
I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Art at Wellesley College and an adjunct curator at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
In spring 2010, I will be teaching a new lecture on Blaxploitation Film and Photography and the popular museum studies seminar, Exhibiting Cultures:
Representation, Display, Museums and Monuments.
Beginning in 2004, several new scholarly texts, collections of music and period films began to appear with a focus on black art, performance, politics
and culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Scholars and cultural producers were indeed revisiting this important period in American history. Inspired by their
works, I designed the Black Arts Movement as an upper-level, undergraduate art history seminar, which I first taught in Spring 2007 as a Visiting
Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Since then, I have taught the course at Cornell
in Fall 2007 as a graduate/undergradate seminar. With its focus spread over art, film, music and literature, the course offers a comprehensive look at
this important period of cultural flourishing.