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      The Anniversary of the National Museum of African Art: A Gift in August

      • Date: August 13, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: On August 13, 2012 the National Museum of African Art, founded by Warren M. Robbins, became a part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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    3. Two men and one woman speak outdoors. The woman is at the center.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sharon F. Patton

      • Date: September 25, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Sharon F. Patton, Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 2003-2008, oversaw the museum’s 9,000 African art objects and welcomed the distinguished Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Under her leadership, the museum opened its first traveling exhibition and established a visiting artists program. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sylvia H. Williams

      • Date: October 18, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: African art scholar Sylvia H. Williams, directed the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 1983-1996, and was one of the few women, and the only African American woman, serving at the time as director of a major American museum. #Groundbreaker

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    7. Color portrait photograph of National Museum of African Art curator, Dr. Karen Milbourne.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Karen Milbourne

      • Date: September 19, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Curator Dr. Karen Milbourne, National Museum of African Art, studies the arts of western Zambia and contemporary African art. Her exhibition "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts" won an Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Excellence in Exhibitions award. #Groundbreaker

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    9. A woman sits at a desk covered in papers. The caption below reads: Lydia Puccinelli-Robbins was the Curator of Collections at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, 1979-99. But she had also been working as a registrar, educator, and curator with the Museum of African Art, 1966-79, before the collection was transferred to the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lydia Puccinelli-Robbins

      • Date: August 14, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Lydia Puccinelli-Robbins was the Curator of Collections at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, 1979-99. But she had also been working as a registrar, educator, and curator with the Museum of African Art, 1966-79, before the collection was transferred to the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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    11. Black and white photograph of a woman speaking to a group of children. Some children are holding books. Both the woman and the children are seated.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amina Dickerson

      • Date: October 24, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Amina Dickerson, Director of Education at the National Museum of African Art, 1974 to 1982, established African Heritage Month at the Smithsonian and led work to make the museum educational programs more accessible. #Groundbreaker

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      African American Women Educators at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 2, 2016
      • Description: The contributions of African American women educators Tracy Carpenter, Louise Hutchinson, and Amina Dickerson to the Smithsonian.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Roslyn A. Walker

      • Date: June 3, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Roslyn A. Walker was the Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 1997 to 2002. Under her leadership, the Museum welcomed a new permanent gallery for contemporary art, a development office, and the Friends of African Art support committee. From 1981 until her appointment, Walker had worked at the Museum as a curator, specializing in Nigerian art.

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    17. Correspondence files in gallery space.

      The Warren Robbins Papers

      • Date: October 13, 2011
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    19. Model of the Quadrangle Viewed from the Southwest, c. 1979.

      Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation

      • Date: November 20, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

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      Postcards on the Edge

      • Date: February 18, 2010
      • Description: One of the largest collections of real photo postcards at the Smithsonian can be found in the conveniently titled “post card collection” in the Eliot Elisofon Archives at the National Museum of African Art. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Madagascar - Le bel album venu de France, c. 1905, by Unknown photograher, Postcard, National Museum of African Art,

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    23. Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Museum of African Art

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer

      • Date: July 6, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Museum of African Art, is an expert on both traditional and contemporary African art. #Groundbreaker

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