Professor Kellie E. Jones is interviewed in a New York Times story about the impact of the Altadena fire, which revealed a vibrant arts community that has survived for many decades in relative obscurity.
Jones is quoted near the end of the story published Feb. 20, “Why Did It Take a Fire for the World to Learn of Altadena’s Black Arts Legacy?”
Jones is the Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History & Archaeology and a professor in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University.
She is the author of two books published by Duke University Press, “EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art” (2011), and “South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s” (2017), which received the Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the American Book Award in 2018 and was named a Best Book of the Decade in 2019 by ArtNews, Best Art Book of 2017 in The New York Times and a Best Book of 2017 in Artforum. Her latest book “October Files: David Hammons” will be released in Spring 2025 on MIT Press.
