including the text of her own response to the image, Williams "attempts to define for the viewer the relationship between violence, spectacle, and public representation." Public art Williams has also created three public artworks in Los Angeles. In 1995, she designed The Emperor of the Great 9th District, a memorial to Gilbert Lindsay installed at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The monument consists of three 10-foot high, triple-sided concrete pillars featuring a portrait of Lindsay at his desk. When viewers move closer, they see that the large image of Lindsay is made up of 104 smaller tiles that contain additional images of Lindsay with his family, staff, and other public figures, including Martin Luther King Jr. Williams’ 2001 work Starbursts decorates the Hollywood and Highland Center. Inspired by the finale dance scene of Busby Berkeley’s 1934 film Dames, Williams created circular images that mimic the camera angles in the film. The photo-etched images are on black granite and can be seen on the upper and lower entrance plaza floors of the Dolby Theatre. In 2003, Williams created the public artwork Everyday People for the Lake metro station in Los Angeles. The work consists of large photographs of local people mounted on colored glass panels. Teaching Williams has taught photography at UC Irvine and as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Technikon Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. She teaches at Florida State University, where she has worked since 2000. Personal Williams' daughter, Janaya Williams, is a radio producer at National Public Radio in Washington, DC. References American women photographers African-American photographers Living people Florida State University faculty Moore College of Art and Design alumni Maryland Institute College of Art alumni American photographers 1948 births Date of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women