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We invite you to peruse our bookshelf that we have uniquely curated for the Black Woman Artist. From Art books to fiction to memoirs there is something here for everyone to gain more knowledge on the art practices of Black Women across the world.
TILA Studios believes in the artist’s practice as a lifelong commitment to learning and seeking knowledge through research, exploration and applying the information you consume to your practice. We are partnering with Charis Books and More to continue that by selecting books and resources that we think will shape your career going forward.



In Things I Should Have Told My Daughter, Cleage takes us back to the 1970s and 80s, when she was a young wife and mother trying to find her voice as a writer. Living in Atlanta, she worked alongside Maynard Jackson, the city’s first black mayor and it was here among fraught politics that she began to feel the pull of her own dreams—a pull that led her away from her husband as she grappled with ideas of feminism and self-fulfillment.

In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community.
Our catalog

visual politics by bell hooks

Essays by Elizabeth Alexander

Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations by Toni Morrison

Women at Work by Mason Currey

Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem By Connie H. Choi, Thelma Golden, Kellie Jones, Pauline Willis

Photography Between Art and Fashion by Antwaun Sargent, Addy Campbell (Photographer), Arielle Bobb-Willis (Photographer)

Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

African American Images from the 1890s to the Present By Deborah Willis

Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden By Kwame Dawes (Editor), Matthew Shenoda (Editor), Derek Walcott (Foreword by), Chris Abani (Contributions by), Rita Dove (Contributions by), Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon(Contributions by), Toi Derricotte (Contributions by), Vievee Francis (Contributions by), Nikki Giovanni (Contributions by), Ed Roberson (Contributions by)

Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing By Stephanie Stokes Oliver (Editor), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)

By Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas: Photographs by Mickalene Thomas

By Lorraine Hansberry

The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry By Imani Perry

The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series VII By Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan

"The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 by Audre Lorde, Pat Parker, Julie R. Enszer (Editor)

By Carrie Mae Weems

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

By Lorna Simpson, Elizabeth Alexander (Introduction)

Howardena Pindel

Contemporary Artists Series By Kerry James Marshall

Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Black Women and Feminism By bell hooks

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf By Ntozake Shange

By Alice Walker

By Toni Morrison

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs By Pearl Cleage

By Maya Angelou

By Aja Monet

By Warsan Shire

A Novel By Jamaica Kincaid

Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions By Nikki Giovanni

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2 By Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds