Sylvia Hill Williams: An Exhibit from the African American Women Intellectuals Project

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Sylvia Hill Williams: An Exhibit from the African American Women Intellectuals Project
https://afamwomen.historydesignlab.org/exhibits/show/sylvia-hill-williams/african-art
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Graduating from Oberlin in 1957, Sylvia Louise Hill Williams went on to have an illustrious career in Art History. Becoming Director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 1983, she helped move the Smithsonian towards a more culturally nuanced, scholarly, and intersectional perspective of African Artwork.

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Tamika Nunley

Coverage

1955-

Citation

“Sylvia Hill Williams: An Exhibit from the African American Women Intellectuals Project,” Oberlin Community History Hub, accessed May 15, 2024, https://megansmitchell.org/DH694/items/show/128.

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