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Resources for Further Exploration
| • | @vanessalgerman on Instagram | ||||
| • | vanessa german's work at the Concept Art Gallery: www.conceptgallery.com/artists/german-vanessa | ||||
| • | vanessa german's work at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery: http://pavelzoubok.com/artist/vanessa-german | ||||
Acknowledgments
The author thanks vanessa german for her generous gift of time and her openness to interview, the Pavel Zoubok Fine Art Gallery and Concept Art Gallery for use of images, and Erin Welsh for contributing her thoughtful questions.
Notes
1 The artist prefers using lowercase for her name.
2 Acuff (Citation2020) discussed the origin of Afrofuturist thought in speculative fiction through contemporary scholarship and identifies the unifying concept as “a commitment to use the precolonial histories of African people to envision postcolonial futures with Africa at the center” (p. 14).
3 While Buffington (Citation2019) capitalized “White” and “Whiteness,” I use lowercase to decenter whiteness, following Grant's (Citation2020) argument that the lowercase “w” destabilizes whiteness in his writing.
4 All italicized quotes are from v. german, personal communication, October 9, 2020.
5 On February 14, 2021, the ARTHouse suffered a devastating fire. Funds were quickly raised through crowdsourcing to help rebuild the ARTHouse in the Homewood neighborhood.
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Sue Uhlig
Sue Uhlig, PhD Candidate, Art Education, School of Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and Limited Term Lecturer, Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Email: [email protected]