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| Dr. Leslie King Hammond Lecture: Thursday, February 7 at 6:00 pm Stella Boyle Auditorium FNAR |
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| Start Date: | 2/7/2013 | Start Time: | 6:00 PM |
| End Date: | 2/7/2013 | End Time: | 7:00 PM |
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Event Description
In 1976, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond was appointed Dean of Graduate Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland where she administers 200 students in eleven degree programs. She maintains a constant teaching schedule in the Art History Department. In 2008, she retired to become Graduate Dean Emeritus and was appointed the Founding Director of the new Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She received Mellon Grants for Faculty Research in 1988, 1989, and 2005. In 1985, she was honored with the Trustee Award for Excellence in Teaching. As a member of the “Girls of Baltimore,” she was awarded an NEA artist grant in 2001. In the spring of 2006, King-Hammond was appointed Chairperson of the Collections and Exhibits Committee at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture and in January 2007 became the Chairperson of the Board of the Lewis Museum. Additionally, she sits on the Board of the Creative Alliance for the Artists in Baltimore.
Between 1985 and 1998, Dr. King-Hammond became the project director for Ford/Phillip Morris Fellowships for Artists of Color at MICA (including Yale School of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and California Institute of the Arts). She sits on juries, boards, organizations, and art commissions including Executive Board, International Association of Art Critics (2000-2003); President, College Art Association (1996-2000); Board of Overseers, Baltimore School for the Arts (1996-1999); Vice-President, Jacob Lawrence Catalog Riasonne Project; Trustee, Baltimore Museum of Art (1981-1987); Center For Emerging Artists (2005-2007); Advisory Board, Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts, Kingston, Jamaica (1988-Present). Major publications include Gumbo Ya Ya; An Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists (Midmarch Arts Press, 1995); Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox; Vice-President and essayist for the Jacob Lawrence Catalog Riasonné Project, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (University of Washington Press, 2000).
Dr. King-Hammond has garnered such prestigious awards as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Studio Museum in Harlem, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Art Caucus-College Art Association, and in 2010 the Alain Locke International Prize, among many others. She has curated numerous exhibitions including The Global Africa Project which explored the impact of African visual culture on contemporary art, craft and design around the world at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and most recently Ashe to Amen— African Americans and Biblical Imagery at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City. |
Location Information:
Main Campus - FNAR - Fine Arts
Main Campus - FNAR - Fine Arts
Room: Fine Arts Center Gallery
Main Campus - FNAR - Fine Arts
Room: Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall
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Contact Information:
Name: Cynthia Nourse Thompson
Phone: 575-7987
Email: cynthiat@uark.edu |
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