Jessi DiTillio is a curator, writer, art historian, and a co-founding member of Neon Queen Collective. She received her PhD from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, and was 2019-2020 ACLS/Luce Foundation American Art Dissertation Fellow. She researches 20th century American Art with a focus on African American artists, affect theory, gender and sexuality, and contemporary art engaging the politics of difference.
Colescott asks—what are the implicit messages about Black womanhood embedded in American visual culture?