Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
This presentation was recorded on Thursday January 20, 2022. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s executive director, Dr. Andrews co-curated The Obama Portraits Tour and the companion exhibition Black American Portraits at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she spent the last five years as the executive administrator in the director’s office. Her dissertation, “Envisioning President Barack Obama,” focused on the role of visual images in the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the nation’s forty-fourth president. In this video, Andrews discusses the significance of the Obama portraits in the context of presidential portraiture and U.S. visual culture.
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This presentation was recorded on Thursday January 20, 2022. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s executive director, Dr. Andrews co-curated The Obama Portraits Tour and the companion exhibition Black American Portraits at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she spent the last five years as the executive administrator in the director’s office. Her dissertation, “Envisioning President Barack Obama,” focused on the role of visual images in the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the nation’s forty-fourth president. In this video, Andrews discusses the significance of the Obama portraits in the context of presidential portraiture and U.S. visual culture.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
