Bookshelves: Stage Names

Stage Names highlights women artists of color that have taken on stage names or the act of staging as a means of empowerment and experimentation. These writers, filmmakers, visual artists, and vocalists express their female experiences through visual and literary constructions in place of actualities. Their work combines invention with identity formation to affirm the complexities of expression.

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Featured Image: Maud Sulter, In the Deep

ON THE SHELF:

Liz Barr, Body Works (Richmond, VA: GenderFail Press, 2016).

Lisa Gail Collins, The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press, 2002).

The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye (First Run Features, 2008).

Jan Groover: Photographs (Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1993).

Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun (St. Louis: Contemporary Art Museum, 2012).

Hey Lady Quarterly: Issue 5: Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. Edited by Eileen Boris and Cynthia Daniels. University of Illinois, 1989.

bell hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (The New Press, 1995).

Hettie Jones, Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music (Viking Books, 1974).

Diane Keaton, Reservations (New York: Knopf, 1980).

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (The Crossing Press, 1982).

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers (Dodd, Mead, 1986).

The Plantation Journal 4 Sculptural Geometry. Edited by Trine Stephensen and Elevine Berge.
The Pointer Sisters: Energy (Panet Records).

Wendy Rene: After Laughter Comes Tears (12-in LP).

Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer. Edited by Mario Mainetti, Chicara Costa, and Elvira Dyangani Ose (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2017).

Clarissa T. Sligh, Transforming Hate: An Artists Book (2016).

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Woman, 1965-85. Edited by Rujeko Hockley and Catherine Morris (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017).