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Article: MCGEE NAMED CURATOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AT UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 18, 2008
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The University of Delaware issued the following news release:
"I majored in art history and have a doctorate in art history but I was not really exposed to African American art until I was working in New Orleans for the National Faculty and lecturing at Tulane in 1994. In New Orleans, African American art surrounded me and called out to me. In a sense, I didn't find it-it found me," said Julie McGee, newly appointed curator of African American art for UD's University Museums.
"My original interest was in northern Renaissance art and modern architecture, but African American and African art became my focus, and I have immersed myself in it and learned all I could," McGee said.
At UD, McGee ...