THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Vivian E. Browne
April 26, 1929 – July 23, 1993
“Black art is political. If it’s not political, it’s not black art.”
Vivian Browne joined the Rutgers faculty at Newark in 1970 as an instructor in the art and design department. She headed the department from 1975 to 1978, becoming a full professor in 1985. Founding member of SoHo 20, a Broome Street gallery, one of the first women’s art cooperatives in Manhattan in 1973. Active in the Women’s Caucus for Art and the National Conference of Black Artists.
Photo. Vivian E. Browne
More About Vivian:
- The archived works of Vivian E. Browne, The Crows Nest Gallery and Studio
- Talking to Vivian Browne, Leo Hamalian, Black American Literature Forum
- Oral history interview with Vivian Browne by Henri Ghent, for the Archives of American Art, 1968
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 61