Professional Activity Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Montgomery, Evangeline J. (1933)
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content: Evangeline J. Montgomery papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 4-11)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963-2017
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.montevan, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series documents Montgomery's career as a consultant, curator, member, and volunteer for a myriad of organizations such as the African American Museums Association, Art West Associated North, National Conference of Artists, National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Club, and Women's Caucus for Art. She also worked to promote African American artists through exhibitions, talks, conferences, events, and educational programs, and worked to cultivate cross-cultural programs in the United States of African and other international artists. Many of Montgomery's projects were done in conjunction with her role as Program Officer for the United States Information Agency (USIA). Files contain 33 video and sound recordings, 2 born digital records, meeting notes, exhibition and project planning documents, exhibition reviews and other printed materials, correspondence, budget records, and other organizational materials. 

Files for exhibitions curated by Montgomery include Black Graphics (1973-1975), Black Reflections I: The Paintings and Sculpture of Sargent Johnson / Charles Dawkins (1976), and "Images: Africa's Children" (1982). The files contain artwork lists, correspondence, loan documents, material about the artists, and other exhibition planning documents. 

Montgomery's files as National Exhibits Workshop Coordinator at the American Association for State and Local History include Exhibits Workshops Screening Committee material, a notebook regarding workshops, and material on the NEH funded Interpreting History Workshops. 

Montgomery was the Ethnic Art Consultant at the Oakland Museum from 1968 until 1974. Her files include survey records researching exhibitions of Black artists, catalog statement drafts by Montgomery for a Grafton Tyler Brown exhibition, planning and printed material for the exhibition series Black Untitled (1970-1973), and records for the museum's first large exhibition New Perspectives in Black Art (1968) at Kaiser Industries prior to the museum's opening. 

Conference files document Montgomery's participation at conferences for the College Art Association and James A. Porter Colloquium, along with video recordings of Montgomery lecturing at the October Gallery Art Seminar and Alabama State University.