Romi Crawford

Liberal Arts Department
Faculty

Background

Education
B.A., Oberlin College
M.A. University of Chicago.
PhD candidate, University of Chicago

Curator
“CyberRhythms: Black Innovations in Art and Technology” Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; “Contemporary Art and Celebrity Culture,” Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago; “Urban Style Politics” and “Group Retrospective: Selected African-American Photographers,” Romi Crawford Gallery, NY.

Publications:
Art Journal; Frequency Catalogue

Personal statement

Interested in imaginings of identity, including (but not limited to) aspects of race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, especially as these are mobilized towards the production of American visual and popular culture. Also invested in non-object based  (discourse driven) curatorial projects. Research interests include, the relation of the historic ghetto to contemporary meanings and extrapolations, and African American and Jewish race/ ethnicity films from the 1920s/30s.

Current Interests

Current projects include Black Thought, a documentary on the production of Black intellectual culture from Du Bois to the present; Evidencing Edmonia, which explores the 19th century sculptress Edmonia Lewis through the lens of the women who research and study her legacy; and a book, The Practice of Ghetto.

Experience at SAIC

Concurrent position: Director, Visiting Artists Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.