Interpreting Site

ART PAPERS Summer 2024 theme, Interpreting Site, is guest edited by Sherae Rimpsey, the inaugural Mildred Thompson Arts Writing + Editorial Fellow.

Sherae Rimpsey, i wish it were a murmur, oh frog head, 2020, film still [courtesy of the artist]

The Mildred Thompson Arts Writing and Editorial Fellowship is a collaboration between Art Papers and Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University. Funding for the two-year editorial position was provided to Newcomb Art Museum by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an emerging Black arts writer/editor to gain hands-on experience as part of Art Papers’ editorial team. The fellowship also honors and builds upon the legacy of Mildred Thompson, associate editor of ART PAPERS from 1989 to 1997.


Conceptualized as part of Art Papers’ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility efforts, the fellowship received seed funding from AEC Trust and The Homestead Foundation to pilot the program in 2022.

cover image: Sherae Rimpsey, i wish it were a murmur, oh frog head, 2020, film still [courtesy of the artist]