Maurita Poole
Program
Institution
Title
Executive Director
Institution at time of Fellowship
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Residency
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Mentor
Maurita N. Poole is Executive Director at Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University. She holds a doctorate from Emory University in Anthropology. Her curatorial projects focus on African Diaspora art. Her most recent exhibition Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation, was co-curated with Margaret Adler of Amon Carter. It explores contemporary visualizations of freedom in relation to John Quincy Adams's 1863 sculpture The Freedman and commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Before Newcomb Art Museum, Poole served as director and curator at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum (CAUAM). As director, she created and managed the Tina Dunkley Fellowship in American Art, a collaborative Diversity in Art Museum Leadership Initiative (DAMLI) involving CAUAM, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and the Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA). Additionally, she developed the “Black Optics Artist Residency,” an initiative that connected the praxis of African American and Caribbean artists.
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2019-11-07
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2021-09-14
Maurita Poole (CCL 2020) named Director of the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University
Maurita Poole (CCL 2020) has been name director of the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisana. Poole has been the director and curator of the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum since 2015. While at the Clark, she oversaw the Tina Dunkley Fellowship in American Art, a collaborative ... Read More >