Latest News in Black Art: New University Museum Directors, Infiniti Award for Photog Renell Medrano, Arvie Smith Among Guggenheim Fellows, Honoring Hank Aaron
Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Cécile Fromont | Courtesy Harvard HAA APPOINTMENTS First Faculty Director at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery Cécile Fromont (above) is joining Harvard University as a new professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the first faculty director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center. Fromont arrives at Harvard from Yale University, where she was a professor of African and South Atlantic Art. (4/5) | More Jacob Lawrence Gallery Names New Director Jordan Jones (left) was appointed director and curator of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle. The newly renovated, state-of-the-art exhibition space is located within UW Seattle’s School of Art + Art History + Design. After earning a bachelor of art degree from Williams College, Jones has been based in New York, where she served as exhibitions coordinator at Independent Curators International. Previously, she was a joint curatorial fellow at The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Museum of Modern Art. Jones started at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery on April 3. (4/2) | More New Trustees […]
