Meet the Curator: Jaleesa Johnston and Professor Kiara Hill
Engage directly with PAM’s Curatorial Coordinator Jaleesa Johnston as she speaks with Professor Kiara Hill PhD during informal gallery conversations offering behind-the-scenes insights into the exhibitions, themes, archival materials and curatorial practices connected to the BAE galleries.
Kiara Hill is the James DePriest Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History in the Schnitzer School of Art + Art + History + Design at Portland State University. She teaches courses on African American art and socially engaged art in the Art + Social Practice MFA Program. Hill earned her B.A. in Mass Communications at Sacramento State University, her M.A. in Women’s Studies at the University of Alabama, and her Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with an emphasis on Black women artists and cultural workers. Hill is also a curator of African American visual art and culture, and currently serves as curator-in-residence at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA).
