Dr. Tuliza Fleming, Curator of American Art at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Smithsonian Institution, was the distinguished speaker at the Johnson Collection’s 2019 Voices in American Art lecture. The sixth annual edition of the educational series was held on Thursday, February 28 at Chapman Cultural Center in downtown Spartanburg.
Dr. Fleming received her MA and PhD in American art history from the University of Maryland, College Park (1997 and 2007) and her BA from Spelman College (1994). During her tenure at the NMAAHC, she worked to build the museum’s foundational American art collection, and supervised the creation of a collection-based multi-media interactive presentation. She also co-curated the traveling exhibition “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment,” curated “Clementine Hunter: Life on Melrose Plantation,” and served as the lead curator for the museum’s inaugural exhibition “Visual Art and the American Experience.” Formerly, Dr. Fleming served in the position of Associate Curator and head of the Department of American Art at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio.
