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Andrea Barnwell Brownlee

February, 2007

Andrea Barnwell Brownlee is an art historian, curator, writer, critic, and the Director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Her primary research interests are African American and Black British art. She has curated several exhibitions including Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy (2007), Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons and the Blues (2005), Engaging the Camera: African Women, Portraits and the Photographs of Hector Acebes (2004) and iona rozeal brown: a³ … black on both sides (2004). Her writings have been featured in major publications including To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance, and African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago. In 1999 she organized and was the principal author of The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art catalogue. Her critical writings have appeared in numerous journals including the International Review of African American Art, African Arts, and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. She is the recipient of numerous academic, professional, and scholarly awards including a MacArthur Curatorial Fellowship in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago (1998 — 2000), a Future Women Leadership Award from ArtTable (2005), and the President’s Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art (2005). Brownlee, an alumna of Spelman College, completed her Masters and Doctorate degrees in art history at Duke University. Her monograph, Charles White: The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, Volume I, was published by Pomegranate Communications in 2002. Brownlee currently serves on the boards of the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences and the Metropolitan Atlanta Art Fund. In addition, she is a juror for the 2007 MOCA GA Working Artists Project and the vice chair of the City of Atlanta Arts Funding Task Force.