Dr. Tuliza Fleming is the Curator of American Art at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Smithsonian Institution. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American art history from the University of Maryland, College Park (1997 and 2007), and her B.A. from Spelman College (1994). During her tenure at the NMAAHC, she worked to build the museum’s foundational American art collection, supervised the creation of a collection-based multi-media interactive, co-curated the traveling exhibition, Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment, and served as the lead curator for the museum’s inaugural exhibition, Visual Art and the American Experience. Formerly, Dr. Fleming served in the position of Associate Curator of the American Art at The Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio.
Since 1996, Dr. Fleming curated over 20 exhibitions and worked and/or consulted for a variety of museums and cultural institutions. Her publications include, “Visual Art and the American Experience: Creating an Art Gallery in a History and Culture Museum,” Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges (Rowan and Littlefield, 2017); “Cover Stories: The Fusion of Art and Literature During the Harlem Renaissance,” Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and The Shaping of America (Smithsonian Books, 2016); “The Convergence of Aesthetics, Politics and Culture: Jeff Donaldson’s Wives of Shango,” AfriCOBRA: Philosophy (The University of Chicago, 2013); “It’s Showtime! The Birth of the Apollo Theater,” Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment (Smithsonian Books, 2010); “The ‘Museum Baby’ Grows Up: Being a Curator of Color in a Monochromatic Art Museum World,” Museum News (July/August 2005); and, Breaking Racial Barriers: African American Portraits in the Harmon Foundation Collection (Pomegranate Press, 1997).
Fleming, Tuliza K. 2017. "What Are Museums For?" Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 3, (1).
2017
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Fleming, Tuliza K. 2017. "Being Centered." In Personal Vision: Photographs, Adger Cowans. Cowans, Adger, editor. 15–18. New York: Glitterati Inc.
2017
Fleming, Tuliza K. 2017. "Visual Art and the American Experience: Creating an Art Gallery in a History and Culture Museum." In Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges. Rebecca Bush and K. Tawny Paul, editors. 23–46. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
2017
Fleming, Tuliza K. 2016. "Cover Stories: The Fusion of Art and Literature During the Harlem Renaissance." In Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America. Conwill, Kinshasha H., editor. 228–230. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books.
2016
Fleming, Tuliza K. 2013. "The Convergence of Aesthetics, Politics and Culture: Jeff Donaldson’s Wives of Shango." In AfriCOBRA: Philosophy. Chicago: The University of Chicago.
2013
Fleming, Tuliza K. 2010. "It's Showtime! The Birth of the Apollo Theater." In Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment. Carlin, Richard and Conwill, Kinshasha H., editors. 72–82. Washington, D. C.: National Museum of African American History and Culture.
2010
