Yuriko Yamaguchi is a Japanese-born American contemporary sculptor and printmaker. Using more natural mediums,she creates abstract designs that are used to reflect deeper symbolistic ideas. She currently resides near Washington,DC.
Lowery Stokes Sims is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art known for her expertise in the work of African,African American,Latinx,Native and Asian American artists such as Wifredo Lam,Fritz Scholder,Romare Bearden,Joyce J. Scott and others. She served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,the Studio Museum in Harlem,and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has frequently served as a guest curator,lectured internationally and published extensively,and has received numerous public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution.
Audrey L. Flack is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting,sculpture,and photography.
Keith Anthony Morrison,Commander of Distinction (C.D.),born May 20,1942),is a Jamaican-born painter,printmaker,educator,critic,curator and administrator.
Anne Wilkes Tucker was an American museum curator of photographic works. She retired in June 2015.
Elaine A. King is a curator,critic,professor,and editor.
Carol Lorraine Sutton is a multidisciplinary artist born in Norfolk,Virginia,USA and now living in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. She is a painter whose works on canvas and paper have been shown in 32 solo exhibits as well as being included in 94 group shows. Her work,which ranges from complete abstraction to the use of organic and architectural images,relates to the formalist ideas of Clement Greenberg and is noted for the use of color. Some of Sutton paintings have been related to ontology.
Adrienne Lois Kaeppler was an American anthropologist,curator of oceanic ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,DC. She served as the President of the International Council on Traditional Music between 2005 and 2013. Her research focused on the interrelationships between social structure and the arts,including dance,music,and the visual arts,especially in Tonga and Hawaii. She was considered to be an expert on Tongan dance,and the voyages of the 18th-century explorer James Cook.
Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Joyce J. Scott is an African-American artist,sculptor,quilter,performance artist,installation artist,print-maker,lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016,and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019,Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form,off-loom beadweaving techniques,similar to a peyote stitch. Each piece is often constructed using thousands of glass seed beads or pony beads,and sometimes other found objects or materials such as glass,quilting and leather. In 2018,she was hailed for working in new medium —a mixture of soil,clay,straw,and cement —for a sculpture meant to disintegrate and return to the earth. Scott is influenced by a variety of diverse cultures,including Native American and African traditions,Mexican,Czech,and Russian beadwork,illustration and comic books,and pop culture.
John G. Hanhardt is an American author,art historian,and curator of film and media arts. Hanhardt was the Consulting Senior Curator for Media Arts at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art,where he developed exhibitions,collections,and archives in film and the media arts. He is considered to be one of the leading scholars on video artist Nam June Paik.
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada is a Japanese textile artist,curator,art historian,scholar,professor,and author. She has received international recognition for her scholarship and expertise in the field of textile art. In 2010,she was named a "Distinguished Craft Educator - Master of Medium" by the James Renwick Alliance of the Smithsonian Institution,who stated:"she is single-handedly responsible for introducing the art of Japanese shibori to this country". In 2016 she received the George Hewitt Myers Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Jodi Anne Hauptman is an American art historian and curator. Hauptman is the Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art.
Jane Shelton Livingston is an American art curator. She is the author and co-author of numerous books and catalogs.
Guy Clinton McElroy was an African American art historian and curator. Most notably,McElroy curated the major exhibition titled Facing History:The Black Image in American Art,1710-1940. He died during the run of the show in 1990.
Valerie Cassel Oliver is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). Previously she was senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) in Texas. Cassel's work is often focused on representation,inclusivity and highlighting artists of different social and cultural backgrounds.
Dorothea Mierisch (1885–1977) was an American artist born in New York City in 1885,and she died in Hopewell,New Jersey in 1977.
Alvia J. Wardlaw is an American art scholar,and one of the country's top experts on African-American art. She is Curator and Director of the University Museum at Texas Southern University,an institution central to the development of art by African Americans in Houston. She also is a professor of Art History at Texas Southern University. Wardlaw is a member of the Scholarly Advisory Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture,and co-founded the National Alliance of African and African American Art Support groups in 1998. Wardlaw was University of Texas at Austin's first African-American PhD in Art History.
Gary TinterowOAL is an American art historian and curator. A specialist on 19th-century French art,Tinterow is currently Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair of the Museum of Fine Arts,Houston.
Carol Borchert Cadou is an American museum curator and administrator who serves as executive director of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America,running the society's headquarters at Dumberton House in Washington,D.C.
