Nell Irvin Painter's latest book—Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present (Oxford University Press)

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A prolific and award-winning scholar, her most recent books are Creating Black Americans. (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Southern History Across the Color Line (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). A second edition of Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 and a Korean translation of Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol appeared in 2008. Her four other books are also still in print. The History of White People (W. W. Norton) will be published in the spring of 2010. For a complete list of her book and article publications and other honors and activities, please consult the CV on this website.

As a public intellectual, Professor Painter is frequently called upon for lectures and interviews on television and film. In January 2008 she appeared live for a three-hour “In Depth” program on C-SPAN Book TV. To see the program on the internet, go to the web page for “In Depth.” She has also appeared on Bill Moyers’s “Progressive America.” New Jersey Network’s “State of the Arts” documented her work as both a scholar and an art student.

Her agent at Greater Talent Network is Edna Schenkel: <ednas@greatertalent.com> or 877-662-9200.

Nell Painter’s Encore Career

Nell Painter will receive a BFA degree in visual art from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey in May 2009 (when she will actually be serving as a visiting professor at the University of Rome). Here are some examples of her student artwork:

In November-December 2008 Nell Painter created a series of paintings inspired by Brooklyn photographs by Louise Fornasieri-Gold in the Brooklyn Historical Society. Here are four from that series, all 22” x 30”, ink and goauche on paper:

This 24” x 18” ink on paper drawing from November 2008, Stand Up, indicates the direction in which her work is moving.

This is the third of a five-panel ink and collage on paper drawing, Tuesday, celebrating the November 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama with images drawn from art history, Louise Fornasieri-Gold’s Brooklyn photographs, and photographs documenting the election from the New York Times.

Memory Piece was one of her projects in a relief printmaking class at SUNY-Plattsburgh in fall 2007.

In her year-end review in the spring of 2007, the professors said the ineptness of this oil self-portrait showed she would never succeed as a painter of the figure.

This dog sculpture from the spring of 2007 gave her great respect for the ability of animals to support themselves on their own four (or two) feet.

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