Professor Bridget R. Cooks teaches in the Departments of African American Studies and Art History
at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American art and
culture, Black visual culture, museum criticism, film, feminist theory and post- colonial
theory. She has received a number of awards, grants and fellowships for her work including the
prestigious James A. Porter & David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History, and
the Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American Art. Professor Cooks has also curated
several art exhibitions including "The Art of Richard Mayhew" at the Museum of the African
Diaspora, San Francisco, 2009-2010; Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California (2018) at the
Pasadena Museum of California Art; and Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective (2019) at the California
African American Museum (CAAM).
Funding for this event provided by the Jerold Ziff fund.
