Speakers
- Christa Clarke
- Independent Curator
Christa Clarke, Ph.D., is an independent curator/art historian and an affiliate of Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Previously, she was Senior Curator, Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum, where she pioneered Newark’s collecting of modern and contemporary African art and organized numerous exhibitions over her sixteen-year tenure. Clarke has been a fellow at the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum, the Hutchins Center, and the Clark Art Institute, and held teaching appointments at NYU Abu Dhabi, University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University, and Rutgers. Her publications include Representing Africa in American Art Museums (2010), African Art at the Barnes Foundation (2015), and Arts of Global Africa: The Newark Museum Collection (2018) as well as numerous essays and exhibition catalogues. A 2012 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership, Clarke is committed to advancing equity in museums which she has furthered through her longtime involvement with the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), most recently serving as its President (2017-2019) and now Trustee Emerita.