Josephine D. Chase

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Art and visual culture of the African Diaspora, histories of photography in West and Central Africa, African American art historiographies, Black life and the archive.

Josephine Chase is an art researcher and practitioner interested in the triangulation between makership, authorship and community. She focuses on a Transatlantic exchange of portraiture from West African port cities and uses materiality to locate the mediation of functionality in Black visual culture with an emphasis on object-based visual analysis of quotidian life. Chase holds a BFA from Maine College of Fine Art in Painting and an MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.