Lisa Gail CollinsLisa Gail Collins is professor of art and the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair at Vassar College. She is author of The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press, 2002), Art by African-American Artiss: Selections from the 20th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), and Arts, Artifacts, and African Americans: Context and Criticism (Michigan State University, 2007). She is coeditor, with Margo Natalie Crawford, of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006) and coauthor of African-American Artists, 1929-1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003). Read More Read Less