Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims is a force to be reckoned with. She has studied intensely, moving form a Bachelors Degree at Queens College, through a Masters Degree in art history at Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters Degree in philosophy, as well as a Doctorate Degree in art history from City University of New York.
As a curator with a Doctorate Degree in art history, she is unusually well read in American, African American, and African Diaspora culture.
It is easy to be impressed by her knowledge of modern and contemporary art. She is particularly noted for her expertise in the work of African, Latino, Native, and Asian American artists. She is best known for her work at the Metropolitan buy viagra america Museum of Art where she became the museum’s first African American curator, The Studio Museum of Harlem as Executive Director and adjunct curator, as well as the Museum of Arts and Design as the Charles Bronfman Curator.
Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims has a long-reaching career that also includes positions at Queens College and the School of Visual Arts. She has published, taught, and lectured extensively and has served as a guest curator for exhibitions around the world. She has received numerous awards from countless organizations, institutions, and foundations including the Fellowship for Black Doctorate Students, the Ford Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Moore College of Art and Design.
She has retained membership with an impressive list of organizations as well, including the Grants Commission, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sate Council on the Arts, and the Center for Curatorial Studies. Although Dr. Sims will retired from the Museum of Arts and Design in the spring of 2015, she continues her work as an independent curator.
Dr. Sims has strong ties to Baltimore. In 1988, she received an honorary doctorate degree from Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2007 she wrote the introduction in the Breath exhibition catalogue. This exhibition featured the work of Joyce J. Scott, a Baltimore-based visual artist. (Goya Contemporary, 2007) In 2010, Dr. Sims and Dr. Leslie King-Hammond of Maryland Institute College of Art mounted The Global Africa Project to trace the influence of African art and design on furniture, millinery and architecture. And, more recently, Dr. Sims curated an exhibition of Joyce J. Scott’s work entitled Maryland to Murano. The exhibition was open from September 2014 through March 2015.
In addition, Dr. Sims recently curated New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America that explored the collaborations between small manufacturing operations and craftspersons, artists and designers. (Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), 2014)