Breadcrumb
Contact
bs228@humboldt.edu- Art A 20
Office Hours
Fall 2024: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:20 - 3:40 PM (in-person) and Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 - 2: 00 PM (Zoom)
- Art & Film
Art History
Brittany Sheldon
Lecturer
Areas of interest: African art, African American art, Indigenous cultural and artistic traditions, and questions of art as it relates to history, society, power, identity, activism, meaning, value, authenticity, darkness, humor, and more.
- Postdoctoral fellowship at the Frederick Douglass Institute, University of Rochester, NY
- Master of Arts and PhD in Art History and African Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington 2009 & 2016
- Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of California, Santa Cruz 2007
- "Indigenous expertise: African women's artistry connecting across time and space," Africa Review, 2016
- Northern Ghanaian Women's Art: Visualizing Culture, Blue Ridge Summit: Lexington Books, 2023
- Introductory surveys (Art 103A and Art 103B)
- Indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (104K)
- American art (104J)
- African American art and the Harlem Renaissance (304)