The Small Towns, Black Lives exhibition catalogue, published by the Noyes Museum of Art, contains essays by Charles Ashley Stainback, Deborah Willis, Stedman Graham, and Clement Alexander Price. The catalogue may be purchased through the Noyes Museum of Art, 609-652-8848.

	"Small Towns, Black Lives is not a historical resource, it is a visual journal of discovery, memory, and recognition." - Wendel A. White

Contributor Biographies

Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis is a MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Photography and Imaging, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Her most recent book projects include Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present (2000) and The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, with Carla Williams (2002).

Clement Alexander Price

Clement Alexander Price is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of History, and Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. Dr. Price is the author of many publications that explore Afro-American History, race relations and modern culture in the United States and in New Jersey, including two books Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey and Many Voices, Many Opportunities: Cultural Pluralism and American Arts Policy.

Stedman Graham

Stedman Graham is chairman, and chief executive officer of S. Graham & Associates, an educational company that creates customized corporate training and leadership development programs. He co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Sport Event Management & Marketing (McGraw Hill). In March 1997, Simon & Schuster published a book detailing his Nine-Step empowerment philosophy, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success, which was a New York Times Bestseller.

Curator

Charles Ashley Stainback

Charles Stainback is the Dayton Director of the Tang MuseumTeaching Museum and Art Gallery and a Professor in Liberal Studies at Skidmore College. Previously he was the Director of Exhibitions for the International Center of Photography and the Founding Director of the Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation. Over the past decade he has published several books and curated numerous exhibitions of some of the most challenging work by contemporary artists and photographers, including Vik Muniz: Seeing is Believing (1998), David Levinthal: Works from1975-1996 (1997), Jeff Wolin: Written on Memory (1991), Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now (1993-94), The Anonymous Other: Photographic Installations by Christian Boltanski, Barbara Bloom and Alfredo Jaar (1991), Bruce Charlesworth: Private Enemy/Public Eye (1988), and Portrayals (1987).