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Deborah E. McDowell Gallery

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Deborah E. McDowell

Julian Bond Papers Project event with image of Bond and Paul Robeson

McDowell with red book outside Minor Hall

Julian Bond Papers Project launch event, 2019

McDowell graduation photo

Group photo of early days with late Woodson Director Reginald D. Butler

McDowell toasting Robert Fatton, Jr. at his retirement celebration

McDowell at book signing for Leaving Pipe Shop organized by high school teachers

McDowell with her high school teachers (and their guests): Ms. Mittie Robinson (Thespian Society), Ms. Margaret Zimmerman (Math), Ms. Edwina Reed (English).

McDowell with Thadious Davis and Hortense Spillers at “Embody and Catalyze” Symposium 2022

Group photo

Karla Nicole Gonzalez, recipient of the “Deborah E. McDowell Award" in 2023

McDowell with Gloria Naylor, circa 1990s

McDowell with Katie Geneva Cannon

McDowell and Tressie McMillan Cottom after lecture on “Beauty,” 2024

Bond Papers presentation at Charlottesville High School, 2024

Group photo

Photo at event with Tera Hunter

Photo at event with Farah Jasmine Griffin

McDowell with Niya Bates at Monticello during recording for Notes on the State pocast

McDowell at Jubilee Hall, Fisk University

McDowell with LaTaSha Levy and Nicole Burrowes at Pippin Hill

McDowell, n.d.

McDowell, traveling, n.d.

McDowell at Living Wage protest, January 2015

McDowell, school days

McDowell with Bond Papers Project editor Laura Baker and student assistants

McDowell at 2017 graduation with Kimberly Bassett Zing, Keisha John, Kwame Otu, and Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

McDowell at dinner party

McDowell and her first PhD student, Michael Bennett

McDowell at event

McDowell with Angela Davis

McDowell with Nicole Burrowes and LaTaSha Levy

McDowell laughing at event

McDowell with James Perla at Notes on State Launch Party, 2019

McDowell at Leaving Pipe Shop book reading

McDowell and Rita Dove

Michael Bennet and Juan Battle, 2023

McDowell hugging in B&W

McDowell with Kwame E. Otu in Ghana during the January Term class

McDowell on a walk in Venda, South Africa

Group photo, n.d.

Group photo, Fisk university

Travel photo

Dinner photo

McDowell joyous in nature, somewhere scenic

Event photo

McDowell at the U.S. Open with Tera Hunter

McDowell interviewing dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones

UVA Commencement address, 2017

McDowell at Minor Hall

McDowell at event with Angela Davis

Photo with Donaldson at luncheon

McDowell at "ribbon cutting" ceremony for Minor 110 in 2017

McDowell at University of Venda, 2013

Woodson staff and fellows group shot, circa 2019

McDowell at Miller Center before interview with Melody Barnes for the Notes on the State podcast project

McDowell with Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Mary Helen Washington, and Thadious Davis

Graduation with Debbie Best and Malakai

Photo of McDowell as baby and as a first-grader

With Nicole Burrowes and LaTaSha Levy

McDowell and Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

McDowell performing a reading at Ntozake Shange celebration of life

McDowell with Laura Helton

Luncheon with Susan Donaldson and Giulia Fabi

McDowell and LaTaSha Levy

McDowell with Julian Bond at gala for Bond in NYC circa 2010

Image at Monticello with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and other distinguished guests

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