Thelma Golden
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About
Art curator, speaker, and art historian who is known for being the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum, as well as for serving on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House from the year 2010 through the year 2016.
Before Fame
She liked art from a young age. She was a curatorial apprentice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in her senior year of high school in the year 1983. She attended Smith College and graduated with a BA in Art History and African-American Studies in the year 1987. She began working at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the year 1987.
Trivia
She was awarded the J Paul Getty Medal in the year 2008. She was awarded the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence in the year 2016. She enjoys poetry and advocacy work. She is also known for lecturing at multiple colleges including Yale University, Columbia University, and the Royal College of Art in London.
Family Life
She was born and raised in Queens, New York. She married fashion designer Duro Olowu in the year 2008.
Associated With
She attended the state dinner hosted by Barack Obama for Francois Hollande at the White House on the date of February 11th, 2014.
