Five women of color holding key positions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts are, from left, Paula Saylor-Robins, director of audience development and community engagement; Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Jan Hatchette, deputy director for communications; Kimberly J. Wilson, deputy director for human resources, volunteers and community service; and Hazel Duncan, director of finance and accounting for the VMFA Foundation.
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5 African-American women hold senior, leadership positions at VMFA
In 2015, only 4 percent of the curators, conservators, educators and leadership staff at art museums in the United States were African-American, according to a recent survey by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
