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Gaither, Edmund Barry was born in 1944 in Great Falls, South Carolina, United States.
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Edmund Barry Gaither
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Edmund Barry Gaither, museum director, curator. Member of American Association Museums (Commission on Museums for a New Century 1984, Commission on Equity & Excellence 1986, Commission on Museums & Communities 2000, named to Centennial Honor Roll 2006), Association for African American Museums (co-founder 1968, first president).
Education
Bachelor, Morehouse College. Attended, Georgia State University. Master of Fine Arts, Brown University, 1968.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Northeastern University, 1984. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Framingham State College, 1993. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Rhode Island College, 1994.
Career
Lecturer Spelman College, 1968—1969, Massachusetts College Art, 1970—1971, Wellesley College, 1971—1974, Harvard College, 1972—1975. Director & curator Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, since 1969. Special consultant Museum Fine Arts, since 1969.
Visiting professor Afro-American studies Boston University, 1971—1983. Member summer faculty University Minnesota Arts Leadership Institute, 1989. Member George W. Bush's advisory board on Historically Black Colleges & Universities.
Panel chairman Expansion Arts Division, National Endowment for the Arts, 1980—1983.
Achievements
Membership
Member of American Association Museums (Commission on Museums for a New Century 1984, Commission on Equity & Excellence 1986, Commission on Museums & Communities 2000, named to Centennial Honor Roll 2006), Association for African American Museums (co-founder 1968, first president).
Awards
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Recipient MassArt award, Massachusetts College Art, 1988, J. Eugene Grigsby award, National Art Educators Association Committee on Minority Concerns, 1989, Men of Vision award, Museum Afro-American History, 1992, 20th Annual award, Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, 1993, citation for contribution to the arts, Massachusetts House Representatives, 1997, Commonwealth award for Organizational Leadership, State of Massachusetts, 1997, Unity award, Northeastern University John D. O'Bryant African American Studies Institute, 1998.Recipient MassArt award, Massachusetts College Art, 1988, J. Eugene Grigsby award, National Art Educators Association Committee on Minority Concerns, 1989, Men of Vision award, Museum Afro-American History, 1992, 20th Annual award, Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, 1993, citation for contribution to the arts, Massachusetts House Representatives, 1997, Commonwealth award for Organizational Leadership, State of Massachusetts, 1997, Unity award, Northeastern University John D. O'Bryant African American Studies Institute, 1998.