Amanda Gilvin

Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs, Davis Museum at Wellesley College

CULTURE

Her past exhibitions include Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons (Davis Museum at Wellesley College, 2019) and El Anatsui: New Worlds (Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2014). She writes on textiles, contemporary art, and museums of Africa and the African Diaspora, and her articles have been published in African Studies Review, Critical Interventions, African Arts, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. She was the lead editor of Collaborative Futures: Critical Perspectives on Publicly Active Graduate Education (2012). Her forthcoming book, Mining Beauty: Art and Development in Niger includes an analysis of the Musée National Boubou Hama du Niger.