Camille Akeju
Camille Giraud Akeju is American curator and educator. She is the former director of the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C.[1]
Biography
[edit]Camille Akeju grew up in Mount Vernon, New York.[2] She attended college in Jacksonville University, in 1968, and was one of six students to be integrated in the dorms. She ended up leaving Jacksonville and attended Howard University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in art education, a minor in printmaking, and her master's degree in art history. While at Howard, she would intern at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
After graduation, Akeju worked briefly as professor at Fisk University. She married a fellow professor, who was born in Nigeria. The couple would live in Nigeria for two years and then move back to Mount Vernon. Upon their return, she started working at the Association of Community-Based Artists of Westchester Center for the Arts. Akeju then worked, for seven years, at the Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx. She was the president and CEO of the Harlem School of the Arts for six years. She also worked at the New York Transit Museum.[2] In 2006, she became the director of the Anacostia Community Museum.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Salmon, Barrington M. (October 27, 2011). "Anacostia Museum Looks to the Future as it Celebrates 44 Years". The Washington Informer. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
- ^ a b Trescott, Jacqueline (November 1, 2005). "Howard Grad Akeju Comes Full Circle as New Head of Anacostia Museum". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ^ Bass, Holly (March–April 2006). "Camille Akeju: New Director Seeks to Rejuvenate Anacostia Museum". Crisis: 37–39. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
- American art historians
- American art educators
- Fisk University faculty
- Howard University alumni
- Writers from Mount Vernon, New York
- Smithsonian Institution people
- Jacksonville University alumni
- Living people
- American women art historians
- Historians from New York (state)
- 21st-century American women educators
- 21st-century American educators