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crystal am nelson is an assistant professor of art history whose research and teaching focus on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. Her other interests include identity and representation, critical pleasure studies, and contemporary Black life. Her current project examines the visual culture of Black pleasure and the aesthetics of Black joy and safe space in the visual representations of quotidian Blackness as depicted by the painters labeled as the Black romantic. Professor nelson’s writing has appeared inÌýThe Art Bulletin,ÌýArt Journal,ÌýFeminist Media Histories, Contact Sheet, Brooklyn Rail,Ìýcaa.reviews,Ìýamong other places. She has a forthcoming article being published inÌýWoman’s Art Journal. Alongside her research and teaching, Professor nelson has organized and co-organized several exhibitions includingÌýHeterotopia, Dark Desires,ÌýandÌýPictures and Progress: The Black Panther, 1966-2016Ìý(with Drs. Cathy T. Thomas and Kiran Garcha).