Lessons in Labels

Jovonna Jones is a doctoral student in African & African American Studies at Harvard University, with concentrations in the History of Art & Architecture and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies. Her research interests include visual art of the U.S., black visual & print cultures, history of photography, black studies, and theories of aesthetics. Jovonna is the Visual Arts Assistant for Transition Magazine, an arts & literary journal based in the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard. Additionally, she co-organizes the Race/Gender/Sexuality Aesthetics Working Group and serves as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor. 

This summer, as the Elaine Goldman ArtTable Diversity Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Jovonna will be working with Joel Smith, The Richard Menschel Curator of Photography, on the the photographic archive of the Peter Hujar Collection at the Morgan Library. She will be involved in the selection and research a targeted group of approximately 650 images representing the length and variety of the artist's career, to expedite scholarly and public access to these materials and to be used in didactic materials to complement the artist’s first in-depth retrospective exhibition, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, opening at the Morgan in January 2018.  

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(From ArtTable.org)