Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis


Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis is a painter, art historian, and visual culturalist who focuses on Africa and the African Diaspora (Northern Hemisphere), and modern European Art and Primitivism.[1] She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of African-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis
Education
Occupation
  • painter
  • professor
  • art historian


Education

Tesfagiorgis received her A.A. from Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa,[2] her B.S. from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, her M.A. and M.F.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from University of Chicago.

Publications
  • Tesfagiorgis, Freida High W.. 1987. “Afrofemcentrism in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold.” Sage; Atlanta, Ga. 4 (1).[3]
  • Tesfagiorgis, Freida High W. 1993. “In Search of a Discourse and Critique/s That Center the Art of Black Women Artists.” Included in:
  • 1993. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, edited by Stanlie M. James and Abena P. A. Busia. London ; New York: Routledge.[4]
  • 1997. Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists, edited by Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and Salah M. Hassan. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.[5]
  • 2001. Black Feminist Cultural Criticism. Keyworks in Cultural Studies, edited by Jacqueline Bobo. 3. Malden, Mass: Blackwell.[6]
  • 2015. Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2014, edited by Hilary Robinson. Second Edition. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.[7]
  • High, Freida. 1999. “An Interwoven Framework of Art History and Black Feminism: Framing Nigeria.” In Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art, edited by Nikru Nzegwu. Binghamton, N.Y: International Society for the Study of Africa, Binghamton University.[8]

References
  1. "High W. Tesfagiorgis, Freida". Department of Afro-American Studies. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  2. "Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis, Faculty, Department of Afro-American Studies". www.wisconsin.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ISSN 0741-8639
  4. James, Stanlie M.; Busia, Abena P. A., eds. (November 18, 1993). "Theorizing black feminisms: the visionary pragmatism of Black women". Routledge – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  5. "Gendered visions: the art of contemporary Africana women artists". Africa World Press. November 18, 1997 – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  6. Bobo, Jacqueline, ed. (November 18, 2001). "Black feminist cultural criticism". Blackwell – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  7. Robinson, Hilary, ed. (November 18, 2015). "Feminism-art-theory: an anthology 1968-2014". Wiley Blackwell – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
  8. Nzegwu, Nkiru, ed. (November 18, 1999). "Contemporary textures: multidimensionality in Nigerian art". International Society for the Study of Africa, Binghamton University – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
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