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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Edmund B. Gaither
Edmund B. Gaither
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gaither, Edmund B., interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Bieschke, Paul, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2001 February 12.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Museum founder Edmund Barry Gaither was born in Great Falls, South Carolina, in 1944. He graduated from Morehouse with his B.A. degree and went on to obtain his M.F.A. from Brown University in 1968. Since 1969, Gaither has been a special consultant at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He also founded and curated the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists where he developed the National Center's permanent collection and organized many exhibitions. His work established the National Center as a vital presence for African American art in Boston and the nation. Gaither also taught at Spelman College, Wellesley College, Harvard University, and Boston University, as well as served as panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts and on President George W. Bush's Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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