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Camille Billops Art

1933-2019

Camille Josephine Billops was an award-winning African-American visual artist, documentary filmmaker and art historian. Her etchings are in the US Library of Congress and were included in the renowned exhibition "Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop." Her films have been shown on Public Television and at the Museum of Modern Art; Finding Christa won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance. Billops and her husband James Hatch, Professor of English at City College New York, co-founded the Hatch-Billops Archives of Black American Cultural History, a collection of visual materials, oral histories, and thousands of books chronicling black artists in the visual performing arts.

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Artist: Camille Billops
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