The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Pope.L, 1955-2023

LC control no.n 2002016209
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingPope.L, 1955-2023
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Pope.L, 1955-
Pope.L, William, 1955-
Pope Lancaster, William, 1955-2023
Pope, William, 1955-2023
Other standard no.Q2547113
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1955-06-28
Death date2023-12-23
Place of birthNewark (N.J.)
Place of deathChicago (Ill.)
Field of activityArt College teaching
AffiliationMontclair State University Rutgers University Bates College (Lewiston, Me.)
University of Chicago
Profession or occupationArtists College teachers
Found inPope.L, William, William Pope.L, 2002: CIP pub. info. (artist, b. in Newark, N.J. in 1955; William Pope.L is his birth name (the L stands for Lancaster, abbreviated by his mother), member of the Dept. of Theatre and Rhetoric at Bates College)
African American National Biography, accessed March 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Pope.L, William; performance artist; born 28 June 1955 in Newark, New Jersey, United States; B.A. from Montclair State University (1978), and an M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (1981); began eRacism, a project that included more than forty strenuous performance pieces (1970's); one of the United States Arts Fellows (2006); taught Theater and Rhetoric at Bates College (1990-2010); directed a performance of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun ; initiated The Black Factory, displayed at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA) as part of 'The Interventionists' show (2004); became a Guggenheim Fellow, and held residencies at Yaddo and Skowhegan artist colonies; exhibited widely, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, London, Vienna, Berlin, Zurich, and Tokyo; took up faculty position at the University of Chicago (2010))
Mitchell-Innes and Nash website, viewed on July 24, 2019: Pope.L page (Pope.L is the only way artist is referred to; forename has been dropped)
Whitney Museum of American Art website, viewed on July 24, 2019: page for Pope.L: Choir exhibition (Pope.L)
Wikipedia, January 4, 2024 (Pope.L; William Pope.L; born William Pope, Newark, New Jersey, June 28, 1955; died Chicago, Illinois, December 23, 2023; American visual artist who worked primarily in performance art, but also painting, photography, and theater)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pope.L>
The New York Times, December 27, 2023, viewed online, January 4, 2024 (Pope.L; birth name William Pope; born Newark, June 28, 1955; died Chicago, Saturday [December 23]; conceptual and performance artist best known for his "crawls" in New York)