the Paul R Jones collection of African American art

FIREFIGHTER
1990
lithograph
16"h x 20"w

SMOKE AND BLUE - EDITION #2
1988
hand-colored etching
16"h x 20"w

THE KKK BOUTIQUE
1994
offset lithograph
20"h x 16"w

untitled #1
1994
offset lithograph
20"h x 16"w

LINKS

The Hatch-Billops Collection
A repository for black American art, drama, and literature
http://www.hatch-billopscollection.org/

Camille Billops - A Memory Keeper
A profile by The Amsterdam News
www.amsterdamnews.org

Klub Ka, The Blues Legend
A collaborative performance at LaMama in New York
www.lamama.org

Contested Territory in Finding Christa
An essay on autobiography, film, and identity
darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jlesage/Juliafolder/CHRISTA.HTML

The Black Film Center
Biography and filmography
www.indiana.edu/~bfca/collection/special/billops.html

SUMMER PALACE
1988
lithograph
16"h x 20"w

Camille Billops is both a visual artist and filmmaker. Her prints and sculpture have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, The Chrysler Museum, and The New Museum. Her films have been shown on Public Television and at the Museum of Modern Art. Finding Christa, which recounts how Billops was reunited with her daughter given up for adoption as a young child, won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance, and was screened at film festivals around the world.

She founded, with her husband, theater director and historian James V Hatch, The Hatch-Billops Collection in New York. Established in 1968 to preserve primary and secondary ressource materials in the black cultural arts, the archive now includes an extensive slide and photographic collection, an oral history library of over 1500 taped interviews and a reference library.