Staff

Staff
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Liz Andrews, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Liz Andrews joined the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art as Executive Director in the fall of 2021. Prior to joining the Spelman Museum, Andrews was Executive Administrator in the Director’s Office of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her curatorial projects at LACMA included The Obama Portraits Tour and Black American Portraits, an exhibition covering 200 years of portraiture. Andrews holds a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University, a M.A. in Arts and Politics from Tisch School of Arts at NYU, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University.

 

Shannon Douglas Kimbro

Museum Collections Manager

Shannon Douglas Kimbro joined Spelman College Museum of Fine Art as the inaugural Museum Collections Manager in September of 2022 after over a decade of working as a conservator in the private and public sectors. Shannon spent several years as the Painting Conservator and later the Chief Conservator for a large as the Painting Conservator and later the Chief Conservator for a large, privately-owned conservation and restoration firm in Denver, CO. In 2018, she returned home to Atlanta, where she served as the Conservation and Maintenance Program Manager and later the Collections and Conservation Arts Program Manager for the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Shannon is a certified Georgia Heritage Responder and studied Paintings under esteemed conservator, Dr. Roberta LaPucci, at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy.  She is a member of the Heritage Emergency Response Alliance (HERA), the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), and the Southeast Regional Conservation Association (SERCA), where she has also served as vice president. In 2022, Shannon completed the Heritage Emergency and Response Training (HEART) program held at the Smithsonian Institution.

Contact: shannonkimbro@spelman.edu

Karen Comer Lowe

CURATOR IN RESIDENCE

Karen Comer Lowe has a passion for the arts and has experience in museums, galleries, and arts institutions for over twenty-five years. In 2017, She received the honor of “Best Curator” in Creative Loafings’ “Best of Atlanta” issue.

Karen has worked with national and internationally known artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Elizabeth Catlett, Mildred Thompson, Beverly Buchanan, Sanford Biggers, Radcliffe Bailey amongst others. She has also been featured in national publications including Artsy, Culture Type and Sugarcane Magazine.

Recently, Karen curated the first solo exhibition of Genevieve Gaignard’s art in Atlanta. The exhibit This Is America | The Unsettling Contradictions in American Identity was on view at the Atlanta Contemporary in 2022. Her position as Curator in Residence is shared with the Spelman College Museum and the AUC Collective.

Contact: karenlowe@spelman.edu