Named one of the top art books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly, Kellie Jones's EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art features selections of her writings from the past twenty years. The book offers a wide-ranging and in-depth analysis at the work of many germinal artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dawoud Bey, David Hammons, Norman Lewis, Al Loving, Howardena Pindell, Martin Puryear, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, among many others. Structured as a dialogue with her family of artists and cultural critics, EyeMinded is an intimate look at art by one of the most influential writers working today.

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Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, Kellie Jones has written for numerous exhibition catalogues and her writing has appeared in many contemporary art journals. In addition to her scholarship, Jones has worked as a curator for over two decades, organizing more than twenty-five major national and international exhibitions including the most recent Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980, which opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in October 2011. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowship, Jones was the inaugural recipient of the David C. Driskell Award in African American Art and Art History from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta in 2005, and was named an Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellow in 2008 for her lifetime of writing on visual art.

Hettie Jones is a poet and prose writer. She has published numerous poetry collections, books for children and young adults, the memoir How I Became Hettie Jones as well as short fiction in journals such as Fence and Ploughshares. Since 1979, Jones has taught writing at various universities, and is now on the faculties of the New School's Graduate Writing Program and the 92nd St. Y Poetry Center. Jones has contributed broadly to teaching and studying writing as the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, member of the Literature Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts, and two-term member on the Board of Directors of Cave Canem. She is presently at work on Love, H. a memoir in letters; Race Tracks, a book of linked stories; and Press Firmly, a collection of new and selected poems.

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