MARGARET VENDRYES

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 305B
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1471
Fax: (617) 353-3243

Lecturer, African Art;
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Tulane University; Ph.D., Princeton University

Professor Margaret Rose Vendryes received her AB in fine arts from Amherst College, MA in art history from Tulane University, and a second MA and Ph.D. in art history from Princeton University. She is an Americanist and Modernist with particular interests in African America, Africa, and contemporary visual culture. Vendryes wrote her dissertation on the art and life of the late African-American figurative sculptor Richmond Barthé. In addition to numerous talks given in the United States, Vendryes has lectured and given papers abroad in Kenya and Panama, conducted research in Jamaica, Haiti and Italy, has published several articles, essays, and reviews on American art, and continues to paint and create mixed-media constructions based on personal memories and feminist ideology. Vendryes is an Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at York College. As 1998-99 scholar-in-residence at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Vendryes conducted new research on representations of the black body in modern American art and literature. She was awarded a 2003-04 American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to complete research for her monograph on Richmond Barthé which is forthcoming.