Additional Resources

African-American history, slavery, 19th century silhouette, craft, cut-outs, art and politics, identity politics, Culture Wars, feminism, installation art, sex, power and art, Black identity, The New School history, muralism, history of violence, micro aggressions, Black Lives Matter, social justice

Winning entries of The Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards, 2005-2006

Winning entries of The Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards, 2009-2010 

Winning entries of The Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards, 2016-2017 

“New School University Unveils “Event Horizon” the First Major Public Art Commission by Artist Kara Walker,” press release by The New School, April 26, 2005 

“Artist Kara Walker – ‘I’m an Unreliable Narrator’ | Fons Americanus | Tate,” announcement and video by Sikkema Jenkins&Co. Gallery, November 2, 2019

The artist’s website

Kara Walker Elected Honorary Royal Academician at the Royal Academy of Art, London, UK, July 2019 

Raymond, Yasmil. “Maladies of Power: A Kara Walker Lexicon.” In Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, edited by Philippe Vergne, 347-370. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2007.

Walker, Kara and Larry Walker. “Kara Walker talks with her father, artist Larry Walker, for BOMB’s Oral History Project.” BOMB Magazine, May 8, 2014. Accessed April 19, 2016.