Hughie Lee Smith (The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art)
Leslie King-Hammond received her BFA from Queens College (CUNY) and an MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in Art History. She began teaching art history courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1973, became Graduate Dean Emeritus, and was appointed Founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at MICA in 2008. Currently she is the Chair of the Board of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture in Baltimore. King-Hammond also sits on the boards of the Alliance of Artists Communities, The Creative Alliance at Patterson in Baltimore, and the Industrial Advisory Council for the NAACP/ACT-SO program. She has written numerous publications on African American artists, including an essay for the Jacob Lawrence catalogue raisonné.