Meet Our Kindred Spirits Panelists

Dr. Reneé S. Anderson is the former Head of Collections at the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC), Smithsonian Institution, where she coordinated and oversaw program collections management activities including major construction projects for collections storage, conservation and museum requirements, and Smithsonian Archives cold storage. Dr. Anderson was Principal Investigator for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation NMAAHC Collections Grant $2M (2013) and for Conservation Intern BA grant $200K (2016). In her current position with the African American Association of Museums (AAAM) her focus is on special projects which include: media interactions, Council collections support, and VIP visitor experiences. She continues to provide support for the NMAAHC Treasures national community program and works on numerous SI Task Force and Working Groups.

Marshall Price is the Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining the Nasher Museum, Price was Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and from 2003 until 2014 held the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum, New York. He has organized numerous exhibitions including Roy
Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75, Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, and John Cage: The Sight of Silence, among others.