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National Portrait Gallery announces new Director of Curatorial Affairs
Rhea L. Combs, director of curatorial affairs, Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Abe Mohammadione / Ideas United.
WASHINGTON, DC
.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has announced Rhea L. Combs as its new director of curatorial affairs, effective May 10. Combs comes to the Portrait Gallery from the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture, where she has served as curator of film and photography and head of the museums Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts. At the Portrait Gallery, Combs will work with the museums Curatorial, History, Conservation and Audience Engagement departments to draw connections between portraiture, biography and identity.
Raashan Ahmad, a founding member of Earthseed Black Arts Alliance, was the project’s producer.
“There are more stories out there than I got when growing up,” he said. “We wanted to tell more history of Black folks. We have a history here and everywhere that’s real beautiful.”
Grants and donations from local businesses helped pay for the project.
Each approximately 5-minute video features a different African American speaker who is an expert in the field they are presenting.
The segment by Nikesha Breeze, a STEM teacher in Taos who specializes in African American history, discusses important Black figures in New Mexico history. Writer, poet and performer Oriana Lee talks about the origins and rise of Hip Hop.
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