Pressly Forum: Q & A with Dr. Tuliza Fleming, Supervisory Curator of Visual Arts at National Museum of African American History and Culture
Pressly Forum: Q & A with Dr. Tuliza Fleming, Supervisory Curator of Visual Arts at National Museum of African American History and Culture
Please join us Wednesday, March 5th at noon, when Dr. Tuliza Fleming, who graduated from the department with her M.A. and Ph.D., will join us to answer questions about her career as a curator and the broader field. The Supervisory Curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Fleming looks forward to meeting especially with undergraduate and graduate students interested in museum careers to answer their questions about the field and how to prepare for it. Please submit your career and curatorial questions in advance here.
During her tenure, Dr. Fleming played a critical role in building the Museum’s art collection, served as lead curator for the Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience (2021), and the inaugural exhibition Visual Art and the American Experience (2016). She also curated Clementine Hunter: Life on Melrose Plantation (2018), and co-curated Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment (2010). Prior to her current position, Dr. Fleming was the Associate Curator of American Art at the Dayton Art Institute where she organized exhibitions such as The Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Monet and the Age of American Impressionism.
Dr. Fleming's publications include, “Visual Art and the American Experience: Creating an Art Gallery in a History and Culture Museum,” in Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges; “Cover Stories: The Fusion of Art and Literature During the Harlem Renaissance,” in Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and The Shaping of America; “The Convergence of Aesthetics, Politics and Culture: Jeff Donaldson’s Wives of Shango,” in AfriCOBRA: Philosophy; and, Breaking Racial Barriers: African American Portraits in the Harmon Foundation Collection.
The Pressly Forum offers members of Department faculty and selected speakers to give a talk to members of the Department (faculty, staff, students) in an effort to create bonds of intellectual and collegial community. The forum is the brainchild of Professor Emeritus William L. Pressly, after whom the forum now is named.