Breadcrumb
Contact
bs228@humboldt.edu- Art A 20
Office Hours
Fall 2025: Mondays and Wednesdays @3:25-5:00pm in Art A 20, Tuesdays and Thursdays @1:00-3:00pm on Zoom, and by appointment on this booking page: https://calendar.app.google/c7XY9boE4W2sJ43SA
Brittany Sheldon
Lecturer
Areas of interest: African art, African American art, Indigenous cultural and artistic traditions, and questions of art as it relates to history, society, power, identity, activism, meaning, value, authenticity, darkness, humor, and more.
Areas of Interest
Art History
- Postdoctoral fellowship at the Frederick Douglass Institute, University of Rochester, NY
- Master of Arts and PhD in Art History and African Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington 2009 & 2016
- Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of California, Santa Cruz 2007
- Introductory surveys (Art 103A and Art 103B)
- Indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (104K)
- American art (104J)
- African American art and the Harlem Renaissance (304)
- "Indigenous expertise: African women's artistry connecting across time and space," Africa Review, 2016
- Northern Ghanaian Women's Art: Visualizing Culture, Blue Ridge Summit: Lexington Books, 2023