New York and Fontainebleau, June 7, 2022 \u2013 Villa Albertine and the Institut national d\u2019histoire de l\u2019art (INHA), in partnership with\u00a0FACE Foundation, and with the support of Ford Foundation,\u00a0are proud to announce the recipient of the second annual Beauford Delaney-Villa Albertine Research Grant, supporting France-based scholars\u2019 research on African American art. The winner, Paul-Aim\u00e9 William, was announced on Saturday, June 4th at INHA\u2019s 11th annual Festival of Art History in Fontainebleau, France.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Paul-Aim\u00e9 William<\/strong> is a\u00a0PhD candidate in Art History at L\u2019\u00c9cole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales \u2013 Institut des mondes africains (EHESS-IMAF), based in Cayenne, French Guiana. He will receive $20,000 to support his project, James Amos Porter, historiographie et humanit\u00e9s de l\u2019art africain-am\u00e9ricain. Du moderne au contemporain (James Amos Porter, Historiography and Humanities of African American Art, from Modern to Contemporary). The 25-year-old scholar has centered his research on contemporary art in Guyana from 1969 to today. \u00a0<\/p>\n James Amos Porter (1905-1970) pioneered African American art history\u2013\u2013yet only one late conference of his has been translated into French. As a result, Porter\u2019s essential work, especially his 1943 opus, Modern Negro Art, is nearly absent from French-language art history. This project both re-centers Porter in francophone scholarship and asks new unexplored questions about the art historian\u2019s work, environment, and legacy, in relation with the history of colonialism and slavery in\u00a0the United States. \u00a0<\/p>\n The Beauford Delaney-Villa Albertine Research Grant, awarded\u00a0as part of the Villa Albertine residency program, will enable Paul-Aim\u00e9 William to deepen his research during a residency in Washington, D.C. (where Porter taught at Howard University), New York, Atlanta, and Cambridge. Customized support from the Villa Albertine team will enable him to meet with key scholars, study archival funds, visit museum collections and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n The grant is named for Beauford Delaney<\/strong> (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 second year, the grant supports art historians working in France who wish to conduct original research in the United States on African 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The 2022 selection committee is comprised of: \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n C.C. McKee<\/strong> emphasized the project\u2019s well-developed arguments, supported by serious research that is both retrospective and prospective in character.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPaul-Aim\u00e9 William\u2019s project is fascinating and long overdue for such an important artist and thinker as James Amos Porter. I am certain that this work will have a lasting impact on the history of art, not just in France, but globally, and am proud that the Beauford Delaney grant can help Paul-Aim\u00e9 bridge continents and further develop his research,\u201d said Ga\u00ebtan Bruel<\/strong>, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the US and Director of Villa Albertine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York and Fontainebleau, June 7, 2022 \u2013 Villa Albertine and the Institut national d\u2019histoire de l\u2019art (INHA), in partnership with\u00a0FACE Foundation, and with the support of Ford Foundation,\u00a0are proud to announce the recipient of the second annual Beauford Delaney-Villa Albertine Research Grant, supporting France-based scholars\u2019 research on African American art. The winner, Paul-Aim\u00e9 William,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":60768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"app_discipline":[233],"app_city_tax":[221,214,217,226],"class_list":["post-60770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","app_discipline-social-sciences-and-humanities","app_city_tax-atl","app_city_tax-bos","app_city_tax-nyc","app_city_tax-dc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n