Jacqueline Francis is the author of
Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America (2012). She is the co-editor of and contributor to two anthologies:
Romare Bearden: American Modernist (2011)
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? (2023)—writings and art placed in conversation with the work of the late conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady. Francis’s curatorial projects include
Adia Millett: You Will Be Remembered(Galerie du Monde—Hong Kong; 2022),
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life (Museum of Craft & Design—San Francisco; 2023), and
Sargent Claude Johnson (Huntington Art Museum—San Marino, California; 2024). A member of the 3.9 Art Collective since 2012, Francis also is a fiction writer who was awarded an Individual Artist Commission grant (2017) by the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2023 she was named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100—recognition of her cultural activism in the Bay Area. Francis is Dean of the Humanities and Sciences Division at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
