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CAMILLE BILLOPS

CAMILLE BILLOPS (b. 1933), born in Los Angeles, creates in a range of media from lithography to film. In 1968 she founded, along with husband James V. Hatch, the Hatch-Billops Collection, New York, to preserve primary and secondary resource materials in the black cultural arts. Her prints and sculptures have been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, New York, the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, and the New Museum, New York; her films have been screened on public television and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Billops' film Finding Christa, which chronicles her reunion with a daughter given up for adoption, won the Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival.