Turry Flucker
Program
Institution
Tougaloo College Art Collections
Title
Director and Curator
Institution at time of Fellowship
Tougaloo College Art Collections
Residency
Mentor
Turry M. Flucker is the curator and director of the Tougaloo College Art Collections. He is the curator of the traveling exhibition Art and Activism at Tougaloo College, co- organized by the American Federation of Arts. Mr. Flucker served as visual arts director at the Mississippi Arts Commission, branch director at the Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans, Louisiana), and curator at Smith Robertson Museum (Jackson, Mississippi.)
During his time with the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans, Mr. Flucker directed the planning and development of several special projects. While at Smith Robertson Museum in Jackson, he initiated a new exhibition program which included organizing an exhibition of works by Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, wife of famed American painter Jacob Lawrence.
Mr. Flucker, a native of Houston, Texas is a graduate of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He earned a BA in History with emphasis in African American Studies from Tougaloo College and an MA in Southern Studies with emphasis in Art History from the University of Mississippi.
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