| Summary: | Art professor and curator Edward Spriggs was born December 6, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio. Spriggs received his B.A. degree in studio and art history from San Francisco State College in 1965. In 1964, Spriggs was a founding member of the journal, Black Dialogue, a forum for young black artists, activists, and intellectuals of the Black Arts Movement. In 1969, Spriggs became director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 1980, Spriggs relocated to Atlanta, Georgia where he initiated the Atlanta African Film Society and the Hoyt Fuller Film Festival while working for the Southern Arts Federation and Fulton County Arts Councils. A year later, Spriggs served as the literary executor of the Hoyt Fuller estate. After teaching art and art education at Spelman College, Spriggs helped to found the Hammonds House Galleries and Resource Center in 1988 where he served as executive director. Spriggs later operated an independent fine art appraisal business.
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