Blackness Thirteen Ways

J. VANESSA LYON is the author of Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens as well as The Groves, an Audible Original and Lush Lives, an NBC News Best LGBTQ Book of the Year. A James Baldwin Fellow at MacDowell and a Fulbright Scholar, Lyon holds a PhD in the history of art from UC Berkeley. She has received fellowships from the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, and the Huntington Library and Art Museum, among others. Her studies have appeared in Art History, Huntington Library Quarterly, Word & Image, Representations, and elsewhere. Lyon is professor of art history at Bennington College, where she has directed the Visual Arts Lecture Series since 2017. She and her cat divide their time between southern Vermont and Santa Fe, New Mexico.