Amy M. Mooney

Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia College Chicago. Her publications include a monograph, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., as well as contributions to anthologies and catalogs including Beyond Face: New Perspectives in Portraiture (2018). She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Portrait Gallery, the Newberry Library, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. In collaboration with Dr. Deborah Willis, she recently launched a digital humanities project, “Say It with Pictures” Then and Now that recovers and examines Chicago’s African American photographers from the 1890s into the 1930s. While serving as the 2019-2020 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at Oxford University, she delivered Regarding the Portrait, a four-part lecture series that draws from her forthcoming book, Acts of Portraiture: Etiquette, Empathy and Progressive Visions of America which investigates the social function of portraiture.
Webseite: https://www.colum.edu/academics/faculty/detail/amy-mooney.html