Romi N Crawford

Romi Crawford, PhD, has a research practice that explores areas of race and ethnicity as they relate to American visual culture (including art, film, and photography). Her work often centers on, and expands the bounds of, Black Arts Movement ideas and aesthetics and positions pedagogical activities that embed in art practices. Recent curatorial projects include Citing Black Geographies (Richard Gray Gallery, 2022) and So Be It! Ase!: Photographic Echoes of Festac'77 (Richard Gray, 2023). Select publications include: co-author of The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2017); Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect (Green Lantern, 2021); “Reading Between the Photographs: Serious Sociality in the Kamoinge Photographic Workshop,” in Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop (Duke University, 2020); and "Surface and Soul in the Work of Nick Cave” in Nick Cave: Forothermore (DelMonico/MCA, 2022). She is founder of the BAM School Modality and the New Art School Modality. She received AM and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago.