{"id":928,"date":"2025-07-24T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/?page_id=928"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:58:38","slug":"cheryl-finley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/people\/cheryl-finley\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl Finley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/07\/people-Cheryl-Finley.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Finley\" class=\"wp-image-820\" style=\"width:292px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong><strong>Cheryl Finley<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ebd9b46e701e49214e6900a1019e0f7b\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\"><strong>Walton Endowed Professor,&nbsp;Spelman College; Director, Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheryl Finley, PhD, is the Walton Endowed Professor and Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective at Spelman College. Committed to engaging strategic partners to transform the arts and culture industry, she leads an innovative undergraduate program at the world\u2019s largest historically Black college and university consortium in preparing the next generation of museum and visual arts leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A curator and contemporary art critic, Dr. Finley is also an award-winning author noted for Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton University Press, 2018), the first in-depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery\u2014a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold\u2014and the art, architecture, poetry, and film it has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. She serves on the Boards of Creative Capital, the Menil Foundation, Circuit Arts and Island Grown Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Photo credit: Gediyon Kifle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Finley Walton Endowed Professor,&nbsp;Spelman College; Director, Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective Cheryl Finley, PhD, is the Walton Endowed Professor and Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective at Spelman College. 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