Kimberly Camp Guest lecture February 25 2016, 4:00 pm Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Room 125
“The Barnes Foundation: Redefining the Mainstream.”
Ms. Kimberly Camp
Kimberly Camp is a senior lecturer at Lincoln University, the nation’s oldest degree-granting HBCU. She lectures on topics in art history and museum studies and has been tasked with the creation of a new undergraduate museum studies program that takes full advantage of the Lincoln’s relationship with the world renowned Barnes Foundation.
Camp has served as president and CEO for several museums including the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center (the Reach) - a landmark science, technology and natural history museum – first of its kind in the region. Previously, Camp served as the first president and CEO of The Barnes Foundation, with its art collections, archives, arboretum and 12 buildings on 150 acres of land, valued at over $70 billion. She was instrumental in the foundation’s relocation into a new world class facility in the city of Philadelphia.
Ms. Camp was President of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit and led the museum through a quadrupling of its facility, staff, budget and audience in four years. She also served as the founding Director of The Smithsonian Experimental Gallery, an initiative of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Museums. An entrepreneurial leader, Camp has focused on the creation of new museum projects and turnarounds for museums in peril.
An artist in her own right, Ms. Camp has been the honored recipient of numerous awards including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Kellogg National Leadership Program Fellowship. Born in Camden, New Jersey, Ms. Camp graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts and Art History. She received her Master of Science degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Ms. Camp’s appearance is sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This event is free and open to the public. Reception in the Frick Fine Arts Cloister to follow.
