• Kara Olidge
• Associate Director for Collections and Discovery
• The Getty Research Institute

Kara Tucina Olidge is the associate director of collections & discovery and chair of the African American Art History Initiative. She guides the Getty Research Institute collections, now including the largest art history library in the nation, and archival collections of 100s of 1000s of photographs, not to mention dealer records, art prints, artist notebooks, and so much more, into the second quarter of the 21st century. Kara served as the executive director of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University. Prior to this position, she was the deputy director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a branch of the New York Public Library. In addition to her work at the Amistad Research Center and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Kara developed programming and directed Hetrick-Martin Institute’s site in Newark, New Jersey. She earned her B.A. from Spelman College, M.A. from the University of New Orleans, and her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo (University at Buffalo). Dr. Olidge is a board member of South Arts and the Plessy Ferguson Foundation. She is the founding president of the Louisiana Charles Deslondes Chapter of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALAH).