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VG: Voices from the Gaps

Women Artists and Writers of Color,
An International Website

About VG

VG/Voices from the Gaps is a web-based trans-national academic community including students, teachers, artists, and scholars. VG provides resources about artists and writers. VG forges a collective effort of scholars who digitally interract with each other. VG contains biographical and critical analysis, pedagogical information, and histories of translation. VG archives recorded sound, film, and image collections, interviews, and online conversations with web logs (blogs).


 


Detail of Civil Rights Memorial by Maya Lin (1989), detail of Photo courtesy of Jeanne Goldman     |     Why this image?

VG in the Classroom

"I use Voices from the Gaps as a resource in all of my literature courses. Each semester I introduce approximately 84 students to the site. I use it to supplement the class and have found it to be an extremely rich way to add to information on the authors we study in class. Over the past few years, it has become an essential way to offer students a wide ranging exposure to many different authors. I also have it as a resource on my BlackBoard site; it is one of the pre-approved resources that students can use in any of their papers. The Department of English at LaGuardia Community College also features Voices from the Gaps on its website as a recommended resource."
J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Department of English
LaGuardia Community College--CUNY

Feedback

The VG editors welcome your feedback on any aspect of this project. We are especially interested in knowing when something doesn't work or when the information contained in our pages is inaccurate, incomplete, or unclear. This site is the result of collaborative contributions by many people at varied levels of scholarly development and your gentle feedback will help us to refine the knowledge that is being produced here. And, of course, we are always pleased to receive your kind praise. Please direct comments and questions to voices@umn.edu.

New News

VG Redesign in Process

   (March 18, 2008)

Voices from the Gaps has started on a process of redesigning and reorganizing the content on this site. Our main goal? To make the site easier to use. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please email us at voices@umn.edu.


From the VG Blog

Artist Nell Wong among speakers at Radical Women conference
   (August 06, 2008)
What's so interesting about 'romance of color'?
   (March 06, 2008)
Educators and Parents: Find Children's Book Resources on VG
   (February 29, 2008)

New Additions to VG

In Bios:

Menchu Tum, Rigoberta
Nafisi, Azar
Markandaya, Kamala

In Critique:

Coal to Diamonds from the Garden of Anne Spencer
The Liminal Space of Desire in the Poetry of Alma Luz Villanueva Cesar A. González-T.
Deals With the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage

VG is housed in the
Department of English at the
University of Minnesota