As director and curator of The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Edmund Barry Gaither has established a vital cultural presence for the black community of Boston and beyond. Through exhibits of African-American painting, photographs, pottery, fabrics, and sculpture, Gaither’s work encourages black Americans to
understand and appreciate their contribution to national and international culture.
He has also established a permanent collection of more than 4,000 artifacts and the country’s largest slide archives of African cultural art. An art historian, lecturer, consultant and writer, Gaither serves as special consultant and adjunct curator at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Gaither formerly taught at Wellesley College, Harvard College and Boston University, and has served as a panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts and on President Bush’s Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He also co-founded the African-American Museum Association.
