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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.