About

I am (she/her) an artist-scholar residing in my hometown, Detroit, MI. I work at the intersection of arts, archives, and African American histories. Through engaging artmaking as an information technology, I am interested in critiquing, reimagining, and refiguring cultural histories. I earned an MFA in Art-Graphic Design (Wayne State University) and am a PhD candidate in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I’m interested in examining arts’ roles within knowledge production and its decolonization: how we craft, document, process, and circulate information through making art to dismantle and recuperate from societal ills.

Education


  • 2023–24* – Ph.D. candidate, Information Sciences *In progress
    Research area: Art as Information
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

  • 2017 – Master of Fine Arts, Art-Graphic Design
    Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

  • 2006 – Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design
    Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University
    Grand Rapids, MI

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Projects

    Disseration-in-progress:
    “Art as Information: Re-reading Quicksand”
    https://recourtney.com/dissertation-proposal-art-as-information/

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    Memberships

    ARLIS/NA; SAA – Recent student memberships

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