Shantay Robinson and Jeremy Lybarger appointed to AICA-USA Board
After an open call to our membership, and a multi-step review process, we're excited to announce the confirmation of Jeremy Lybarger and Shantay Robinson to AICA-USA's board. Both AICA-USA members, they bring a wealth of experience and fresh ideas to our organization as we seek to expand and promote the discipline of arts criticism.
Jeremy Lybarger
Jeremy Lybarger is a writer and editor in Chicago, where he works as a senior editor at Poetry magazine. His art writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, Frieze, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. The recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, he has also received fellowships or grants from the Rabkin Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. He is currently working on a book about the late Chicago artist Roger Brown.
Shantay Robinson
Shantay Robinson began her career as an art writer when, intrigued by the philosophy and theory discussed in a contemporary art class at SCAD, she became a docent at the High Museum of Art. Robinson went on to participate in the inaugural class of Burnaway Magazine’s Art Writers Mentorship Program and was chosen for the CUE Art Foundation’s Art Critic Mentoring program.
She has written reviews, profiles, and features for ARTnews, Smithsonian Magazine, Black Art in America, Burnaway, Arts ATL, Nashville Scene, ARTS.BLACK, AFROPUNK, Sugarcane Magazine, Washington City Paper, and Number, Inc. with scholarly journal articles published in Teaching Artist Journal and International Review of African American Art.
In 2019, she was a panelist at Prizm Art Fair during Miami Art Week. In 2020, she served as visual arts judge at Shreveport Regional Council’s Critical Mass 8 Art Competition. And in 2022, she moderated a panel on the African American Quilting Tradition Robinson for Africa International House in Chicago.
She earned her doctorate in Writing and Rhetoric and teaches writing at Howard University and George Mason University.
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