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- 1 2 Seikaly, Roula. "At Rena Bransten Gallery, Lava Thomas' 'Mugshots' Are Drawn Out of History". KQED.
- ↑ Knight, Heather (October 19, 2019). "Artist's vision for Maya Angelou statue crushed by City Hall's dysfunction". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ "SFAC Awards the Maya Angelou Monument to Lava Thomas, Finally". KQED.
- ↑ McCalman, George (February 7, 2021). "Lava Thomas speaks out: A candid interview with the artist on saga of S.F.'s Maya Angelou monument". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ Small, Zachary (August 6, 2020). "San Francisco Apologizes to Artist Over Maya Angelou Monument". The New York Times.
- ↑ Hotchkiss, Sarah; Veltman, Chloe. "SFAC Apologizes to Lava Thomas for Mishandling Maya Angelou Monument". KQED.
- ↑ "Lava Thomas: Beyond". MoAD Museum of African Diaspora.
- ↑ Desmarais, Charles (October 4, 2018). "When homemakers became heroes: Lava Thomas drawings at Rena Bransten". Datebook. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Thomas, Lava · SFMOMA". SFMOMA.
- ↑ "Lava Thomas, "Xavier" (2006)". PAFA – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. February 5, 2019.
- ↑ "The Black Index". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
The artists featured in The Black Index—Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas—build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images.
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