Michael D. Harris is an artist, professor, scholar, and curator presently living in Atlanta. As a scholar, Harris has published Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation (2003), and has contributed to or co-authored a number of publications. He has had articles on contemporary African art and African American art published in a number of books and journals. Also an artist, Harris has been a member of the artist collective, AfriCOBRA since 1979, and has shown his work all over the United States, in the Caribbean, and in Europe. His work is represented in the collections of Morehouse College, Howard University, the University of North Carolina, the City of Atlanta, the Hampton University Museum, Dillard University, the David Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Paul Jones Collection at the University of Alabama, and the Atlanta airport, and in many private collections. To inquire about sales or exhibitions, please call 919 225-5290 or use the email link.   Recent activities:  - Moderator, African American Art Collection, National Gallery of Art - Feburary 2012 - Lecture, "From The Banjo Lesson to The Piano Lesson: Romare Bearden and the Making of an African American Art" - Tampa Museum of Art, March 2012	Whitfield Lovell, Nelson Stevens, Arturo Lindsay, Carrie Mae Weems, Kevin Cole, and Michael D. Harris, Atlanta, August 2009.       Michael Harris and Arturo Lindsay, Three, 2011, mixed media triptych.