Reading

“These books and articles have provided me with crucial information and ongoing inspiration throughout my life and career. I hope they do the same for you.”

Books

 

Ackerman, Jennifer, Genius of Birds, Penguin, 2017

Adair, Bill, Letting Go? : Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Friendly World, Routledge, 2011

Andel, Jaroslav, Back to the Sandbox: Art and Pedagogy, Western Washington University, 2019

Baptist, Willie, Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the movement to end poverty, Teachers College Press, 2011

Bedford. Leslie, The Art of Museum Exhibitions: How Story and Imagination Create Aesthetic Experiences. Left Coast, 2014

Berger, Maurice, White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999

Cachia, Amanda, Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, Routledge, 2023

Chang, Jeff, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, Picador, 2016

Charlton, Zoe and Doud, Tim, Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy and Purpose, Punctum. 2021

Ciscle, George, Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, Candlebugs: The Art Of Elizabeth Talford Scott, MICA, 1998

Ciscle, George, Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, Candlebugs: The Art Of Elizabeth Talford Scott, BMA/MICA, 2024

Ciscle, George, Joyce J. Scott Kickin’ It with the Old Masters, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2000

Cole, Johnnetta Betsch, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion in Museums, AAM, 2019

Cooke, Lynn, Outliers and the American Vanguard, University of Chicago, 2018

Cooks, Bridget, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, University of Mass, 2011

Corrin, Lisa, Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson, The New Press, 1993

De Wahl, Frans, Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and what they tell us about ourselves, Norton, 2020

Fessler, Ann, The Girls Who Went Away: Hidden History of Women Who Surrounded Children for Adoption before Roe V Wade, Penguin, 2007

Finkelpearl, Tom, Dialogues in Public Art, MIT Press, 2001

Gay, Roxanne, Hunger: Memoir of my Body, Harper, 2018

Giridharadas , Anand, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of changing the world, Vintage, 2019

Graham, Martha, Blood Memory: An Autobiography, Doubleday, 1991

Guffey, Elizabeth, Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Hanna-Attisha, Mona, What the Eyes don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance and Hope in an American City, One World, 2019

Helguera, Pablo, Education for Socially Engaged Art, Jorge Pinto Books, 2011

Holloway, Jonathan, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940, University of North Carolina, 2015

Jacob, Mary Jane, Chicago Makes Modern: How Creative Minds Changed Society, University of Chicago, 2012

Kahn, Albert, Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals, Simon and Schuster, 1970

Kendi, Ibram, Stamped from the Beginning: History of Racist ideas in America , Bold Type Books, 2017

Kester, Grant, Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art, University of California , 2004

King, P. Nicole, Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U. S. City, Rutgers University , 2019

King, Thomas, The Inconvenient Indian: Curious Account of Native People in North America, University of Minnesota, 2018

Lambert, Nicholas, A People’s History of the United States: 250 Years of of Activist Art, The New Press, 2013

Leland, Andrew, A Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, Pengiun Press, 2023

Lewis, John, Whirly gig: Inside Bob Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” Sessions, Dorchester Power and Light, 2022

Loewen, James, Lies Across America: What our historic sites get Wrong, The New Press, 2019

Lonetree, Amy, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums, University of North Carolina, 2012

Lupton, Ellen and MIller, Abbott, Design Writing Research, Phaidon Press, 1999

Marincola, Paula, What Makes a Great Exhibition? Reaktion, 2007

Manchanda, Catharina and Wichmann, Cecilia, Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, Seattle Art Museum and Baltimore Musuem of Art, 2024

McElya, Micki, Clinging to Mammy: Faithful Slave in 20 th century America, Harvard University, 2007

Mock, Janet, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity and Love, Atria Books, 2014

Neill, A.S., Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, Hart, 1960

Nunoo-Quarcoo, Franc (ed.), Paul Rand: Modernist Design, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC, 2003

Noguchi, Isamu, A Sculptor’s World, Steidel, 1968

Ober, Cara, City of Artists: Baltimore, Bmore Art, 2024

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Everything you always wanted to know about curating, Sternberg Press, 2011

O”Neill, Paul, The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice?, MIT Press, 2016

Pietila, Antero. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, Ivan R. Dee, 2010

Reilly, Maura, Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating , Thames & Hudson, 2018

Rogers, Carl, On Becoming a Person, Constable & Robinson ,1961

Rohr, Richard, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for two halves of Life, Jossey-Bass, 2011

Ronkko, Essi, Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with the Block’s Collection, 2021

Sandell, Richard, Museums, Prejudice and the reframing of difference, Routledge, 2007

Sandell, Richard, Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum, Routledge, 2010

Savage, Kirk, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument. Princeton University, 2018

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, As we have always done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, University of Minnesota , 2017

Sims, Lowery Stokes and King-Hammond, Leslie, The Global Africa Project, Prestel, 2010

Skloot, Rebecca, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Crown, 2011

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Jed Books, 2012

Spark, Debra, Coconuts for the Saints, Faber and Faber, 1994

Tillich, Paul, On Art and Architecture, Crossroad, 1987

Tatum, Beverly, Why are all the Black Kids sitting together in the Cafeteria? (new edition), Basic Books, 2017

Treuer, David, Heartbreak of Wounded Knee: Native Americans 1890-present, Riverhead Books, 2019

Vikan, Gary, Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director, SelectBooks, 2016

Watts, Anne, John Englehart : Paintings and Drawings 1989-1991, Dorchester Power and Light, 2024

Westover, Tara, Educated: A Memoir, Random House, 2018

Whitman, James, Hitler’s American Model: U.S. and the making of Nazi Race Law, Princeton University, 2018

Wohlleben, Peter, Hidden Life of Trees, Greystone Books, 2016

Articles