{"id":380186,"date":"2023-11-27T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?p=380186"},"modified":"2024-05-17T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:26:09","slug":"beauford-delaney-prize-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/press-release\/beauford-delaney-prize-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly-Christina Grant awarded $20,000 and a Villa Albertine residency for her research on pioneering artist and educator Lo\u00efs Mailou Jones\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New York and Paris, November 28, 2023<\/strong>\u2014Kelly-Christina Grant has been awarded the third annual Beauford Delaney-Villa Albertine Research Grant, supporting France-based scholars\u2019 research on Black American art. The competitive grant, which includes financial support for research as well as a residency in the US with Villa Albertine, is a collaboration between Villa Albertine and France\u2019s Institut national d\u2019histoire de l\u2019art (INHA), in partnership with\u202fAlbertine Foundation, and with the support of Ford Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the project: \u2018The Black Atlantic of Lo\u00efs Mailou Jones\u2019<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lo\u00efs Mailou Jones, a major artist of the Black American scene, lived and worked throughout the 20th century, and was highly inspired by her travels to France, Haiti, and the African continent. Taking an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, this project, which is Kelly-Christina Grant\u2019s doctoral dissertation, examines the political, social, gender, and racial issues surrounding Jones\u2019 practice of landscape painting. From the question of Black identity generated by past and present generations of intellectuals, to the development of contemporary impressionist painting, to the use of landscape as a cultural instrument or the study of the relationship between gender and landscape in contemporary art, the project approaches the crossroads of African American studies, cultural and visual studies, the anthropology of images, gender studies, and more.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Kelly-Christina Grant<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly-Christina Grant is a doctoral student in art history at Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre. Her research project, \u201cLo\u00efs Mailou Jones’s Black Atlantic,\u201d establishes a dialogue between Jones’s landscape painting (1905-1998) and the principles of mobility, interculturality and hybridity. She will explore the archives and works of this major figure in twentieth-century Black American art to better understand Jones\u2019 complex, multi-faceted \u0153uvre. Kelly-Christina Grant has been awarded the 2023-2024 Terra Foundation Fellowship for American Art to carry out an initial six-month residency at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC for her research on the same subject.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beauford Delaney-Villa Albertine Research Grant, awarded\u202fas part of Villa Albertine\u2019s residency program, will enable Kelly-Christina Grant to pursue archival fieldwork in Atlanta, New York, Boston and Martha’s Vineyard. Customized support from the Villa Albertine team will help connect her with the best contacts and resources in each city.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLo\u00efs Mailou Jones\u2019 deep artistic connection to France, particularly through her landscape work, brings up fascinating questions about the exchange of art and ideas across barriers of geography and culture, as well as race, gender, and class. And of course, these questions remain highly relevant today,” noted Judith Roze, Acting Director of Villa Albertine<\/strong>. \u201cOur sincerest congratulations to Kelly-Christina Grant; we look forward to collaborating on this important residency.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grant is named for Beauford Delaney (1901\u201379), an acclaimed American modernist painter who took part in the Harlem Renaissance and later delved into abstract expressionism in Paris. Now in its third year, the grant supports art historians working in France who wish to conduct original research in the United States on Black American art. In so doing, it aims to promote the work of African American artists in France, shed light on the practices of artists whose work has been traditionally underrepresented in art history, and draw out these artists\u2019 individuality and their relationship with the complex global art historical landscape.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2023 selection committee is comprised of: \u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n