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The Chrysler Museum of Art, in partnership with the Hampton University Museum, has received a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The highly competitive grant will fund Diversifying the Field of Curation and Conservation, a three-year pilot fellowship program for two aspiring museum professionals who have completed master’s degrees. The program will also include a Hampton University undergraduate student receiving a paid summer internship at the Chrysler.

Bridget Cooks, author of "Exhibiting Blackness," steaks with Folasade Ologundudu about the changing field of Black art history.

Bridget R. Cooks. (Photo by Evelina Pentchev.) This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Darby English, and Sarah Lewis. *** In her much-discussed 2011 book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cooks looked at the ways that museums have perpetuated racial inequity through the presentation and curation of African American and African diaspora artists. Her account started with the very first show in America featuring Africa...