Cherise Smith Awarded the 33rd Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book ​“Michael Ray Charles: A Retrospective”

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 33rd annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Cherise Smith for her book Michael Ray Charles: A Retrospective (University of Texas Press, 2020). The book is the first in-depth examination of the artist’s provocative paintings that sample images of racism from consumer culture.