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Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis

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Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis
Education
Occupations
  • painter
  • professor
  • art historian

Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis (born October 21, 1946)[1] is a painter, art historian, and visual culturalist who focuses on African American, modern and contemporary African art, African Diaspora, and modern European Art and Primitivism.[2] She is Professor Emerita, Departments of African-American Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2021 she was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art at Howard University.[3]

Education

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Tesfagiorgis received her A.A. from Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa, her B.S. from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, her M.A. and M.F.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her Ph.D. from University of Chicago.[4]

Publications

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  • Tesfagiorgis, Freida High W.. 1987. “Afrofemcentrism in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold.” Sage; Atlanta, Ga. 4 (1).[5]
  • Tesfagiorgis, Freida High W. 1993. “In Search of a Discourse and Critique/s That Center the Art of Black Women Artists.” Included in:
  • 1993. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, edited by Stanlie M. James and Abena P. A. Busia. London ; New York: Routledge.[6]
  • 1997. Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists, edited by Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and Salah M. Hassan. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.[7]
  • 2001. Black Feminist Cultural Criticism. Keyworks in Cultural Studies, edited by Jacqueline Bobo. 3. Malden, Mass: Blackwell.[8]
  • 2015. Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2014, edited by Hilary Robinson. Second Edition. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.[9]
  • High, Freida. 1999. “An Interwoven Framework of Art History and Black Feminism: Framing Nigeria.” In Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art, edited by Nikru Nzegwu. Binghamton, N.Y: International Society for the Study of Africa, Binghamton University.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Freida High Tesfagiorgis". MOWA Online Archive. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. ^ "High W. Tesfagiorgis, Freida". Department of Afro-American Studies. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  3. ^ "Honorees and Distinguished Speakers". Howard University Art Department. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis, Faculty, Department of Afro-American Studies". www.wisconsin.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  5. ^ ISSN 0741-8639
  6. ^ James, Stanlie M.; Busia, Abena P. A., eds. (November 18, 1993). "Theorizing black feminisms: the visionary pragmatism of Black women". Routledge – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  7. ^ "Gendered visions: the art of contemporary Africana women artists". Africa World Press. November 18, 1997 – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  8. ^ Bobo, Jacqueline, ed. (November 18, 2001). "Black feminist cultural criticism". Blackwell – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  9. ^ Robinson, Hilary, ed. (November 18, 2015). "Feminism-art-theory: an anthology 1968-2014". Wiley Blackwell – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  10. ^ Nzegwu, Nkiru, ed. (November 18, 1999). "Contemporary textures: multidimensionality in Nigerian art". International Society for the Study of Africa, Binghamton University – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
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