Visiting Curator Lecture - TK Smith

Wed, Jun 17 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

TK Smith is an award-winning independent curator, writer, and cultural historian. He most recently served as Curator, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Previously, Smith served as Assistant Curator: Art of the African Diaspora at the Barnes Foundation. Smith’s writing has been published in exhibition catalogues, academic journals, and periodicals, including Art Papers where he is a contributing editor. He is a past recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and was awarded the Leo and Dorothea Rabkin Prize in art writing in 2024. He has been a visiting lecturer at numerous academic and cultural institutions, including Cornell University. Smith is a doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization program at the University of Delaware, where he is completing his dissertation entitled, “Granite, Power, and Piss: The Transformation of a Confederate Symbol.