GUEST SPEAKERS
Carolyn Adams
Carolyn Adams and Associates, LLC
Myesha Francis Agwe
Owner, M. Francis Gallery
Bridgette Alexander
Art Advisor to the White House
Bill Appleton
Assistant Director of Public Programs and Education,
Saint Louis Art Museum
Radcliffe Bailey
Artist
Isolde Brielmaier, PhD
Chief Curator,
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Claudine Brown
Director of Education, Smithsonian Institution
Darwin F. Brown, Esq.
Senior Wealth Planner,
PNC Wealth Management
Johanne Bryant-Reid
Co-director, Romare Bearden Foundation
Bridget Cooks, PhD
Associate Professor of Art History, African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine
Janelle Dowell
Creator and Cofounder, Black Art In America (BAIA)
David Driskell, PhD
Professor of Art, Emeritus, University of Maryland
Helen Forbes Fields, Esq.
Trustee,
Cleveland Museum of Art
Renée Franklin
Director of Community Partnerships, Saint Louis Art Museum
Theaster Gates
Artist, Cultural Planner, and Founder of Rebuild Foundation
Vernita Henderson
Duncanson Center, Taft Museum of Art
Simon Kelly, PhD
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Saint Louis Art Museum
Kali Murray, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law,
Marquette University
Geri Pass-Sowell
Co-Founder, National Alliance of African and African American Art Support Groups
Sande Robinson
Board of Trustees,
Milwaukee Art Museum
Danny Simmons
Founder and President,
Rush Art Gallery
Xaviera Simmons
Artist
Andrew Walker, PhD
Director, Amon Carter
Museum of American Art
Alvia Wardlaw, PhD
Co-Founder, National Alliance of African and African American Art Support Groups
Elizabeth Wyckoff, PhD
Curator of Prints, Drawings,
and Photographs,
Saint Louis Art Museum