Michele Prettyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5192866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Prettyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Prettyman |
| SIGNATURE | PRETTYMAN M |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1178-0474 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Enter the Mystery
This essay and visual dossier outline a metaphysical approach to studying, experiencing, and interpreting the spiritual dimensions of black visual culture. Prompted by Howard Thurman's writing on spiritual principles and practices, the black esoteric tradition, and a lesser-known passage by Frantz Fanon, this project reclaims the “metaphysical” as a way of entering black visual culture's often mysterious and transcendent qualities. Claiming the m…
Woman, Alone? Camille Billops, Self-Possession, and Older Women and Love (1987)
This essay “Woman, Alone? Camille Billops, Self-Possession, and Older Women and Love (1987)” focuses on the unique dynamics in the personal and professional relationship between Camille Billops and James V. Hatch. It maps the complexities of Billops’s selfhood, which she pursued in defiance of societal norms that typically sideline women as “helpmeets” to creative men. I use the Billops-Hatch film Older Women and Love as a case study and commenta…
Doing It, Fluid
In this interview essay Michele Prettyman talks with filmmaker, moving image artist, curator, and producer Elissa Blount Moorhead about her work, the power of collaboration, and her innovative praxis. Taking some inspiration from black musical traditions, which are central to Blount Moorhead's roots, Prettyman borrows the essay's title phrasing, “Doing It, Fluid,” from a song by the group the Blackbyrds. The song's aggregation of an array of soni…
Doing It, Fluid
In this interview essay Michele Prettyman talks with filmmaker, moving image artist, curator, and producer Elissa Blount Moorhead about her work, the power of collaboration, and her innovative praxis. Taking some inspiration from black musical traditions, which are central to Blount Moorhead's roots, Prettyman borrows the essay's title phrasing, “Doing It, Fluid,” from a song by the group the Blackbyrds. The song's aggregation of an array of soni…
Doing It, Fluid
In this interview essay Michele Prettyman talks with filmmaker, moving image artist, curator, and producer Elissa Blount Moorhead about her work, the power of collaboration, and her innovative praxis. Taking some inspiration from black musical traditions, which are central to Blount Moorhead's roots, Prettyman borrows the essay's title phrasing, “Doing It, Fluid,” from a song by the group the Blackbyrds. The song's aggregation of an array of soni…
Woman, Alone? Camille Billops, Self-Possession, and Older Women and Love (1987)
This essay “Woman, Alone? Camille Billops, Self-Possession, and Older Women and Love (1987)” focuses on the unique dynamics in the personal and professional relationship between Camille Billops and James V. Hatch. It maps the complexities of Billops’s selfhood, which she pursued in defiance of societal norms that typically sideline women as “helpmeets” to creative men. I use the Billops-Hatch film Older Women and Love as a case study and commenta…
Enter the Mystery
This essay and visual dossier outline a metaphysical approach to studying, experiencing, and interpreting the spiritual dimensions of black visual culture. Prompted by Howard Thurman's writing on spiritual principles and practices, the black esoteric tradition, and a lesser-known passage by Frantz Fanon, this project reclaims the “metaphysical” as a way of entering black visual culture's often mysterious and transcendent qualities. Claiming the m…
Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Dance (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Film director (1 work) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (1 work) · History (1 work)