Vanessa Thaxton-Ward
Program
Institution
Title
Director
Institution at time of Fellowship
Mentors
Karen Lawrence, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Christina Nielsen, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Dr. Vanessa D. Thaxton-Ward is Director of the Hampton University Museum. Previously, she was Director of the York Bailey Museum, at Penn Center on St. Helena Island, South Carolina.
As Director, she has secured funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Save America’s Treasures, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Luce Foundation, Art Bridges Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the Chrysler Museum of Art. She is publisher of the International Review of African American Art, has curated exhibitions with various artists from Hampton’s collection like Margo Humphrey, Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, and has served as organizer and curator of the biennial National Juried Exhibition: New Power Generation, for emerging artists of African descent. In 2018, Thaxton-Ward and the museum hosted the Association of African American Museum’s 40th Conference.
Thaxton-Ward is on the board of Arts for Learning and previously served on the Virginia Association of Museums board and the Commission on African American History Education in the Commonwealth, appointed by Governor Ralph Northam.
She received her Ph.D. in American Studies, concentrating in African American Material Culture, from the College of William and Mary and Master of Arts in Museum and Archival Studies from Hampton University.
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