Ajuan Mance at Radar Reading Series
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2016-06-28

A lifelong artist, Ajuan Mance works in acrylic on paper and canvas, ink on paper and, for the 1001 Black Men project, ink on paper and digital media. She began writing and illustrating the autobiographical comic series Gender Studies in 2014. Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Bay Area, as well as at the University of Oregon, the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, and the Reinhardt-Fisher Gallery in Trenton, NJ. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including, most recently, Cog, Transition, and Mission at Tenth. A professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, Ajuan art work is partly inspired by her teaching and research in U.S. Black literature and history. A 19th-century African American literature specialist, she holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Look for a full-color version of Ajuan’s “Requiem for a Hot Comb” in the upcoming Alphabet anthology, from Prism Comics, out this spring.