Michèle Gates Moresi

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Michèle Gates Moresi is an American museum curator. Moresi has been a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC since 2006.[1][2]

Career[edit]

Gates Moresi studied at Boston University, where she received a BA degree in 1989. She earned a Master of Philosophy degree in 1997 and a PhD degree in 2003 at The George Washington University.[3]

At the Museum of African American History and Culture, she initiated the acquisition of the contents of Mae Reeves' millinery store in Philadelphia to the Smithsonian's collection.[4][5] In 2016 Moresi initiated the acquisition of the contents of the Falls Church, Virginia campaign office for Barack Obama's presidential election campaign to the museum's collection.[6][7]

In 2017 she was a co-curator, with Aaron Bryant, of More Than a Picture: Selections from the Photography Collection at the NMAAHC.[8][9]

With Tanya Sheehan and Laura Coyle, she authored Pictures With Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.[10][11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Michèle Gates-Moresi". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  2. ^ "How Lonnie Bunch Built a Museum Dream Team". Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  3. ^ "Out of the Margins". Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  4. ^ "Smithsonian honors Philadelphia hat-maker". Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  5. ^ Zaleski, Andrew (2016-08-23). "From the attic to the Smithsonian: Black history museum is full of 'found' items". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  6. ^ "In an era of strife, museums collect history as it happens". 2017-10-06. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  7. ^ "Obama mementos sought for African American history museum". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  8. ^ "Black Photo Exhibit Brings Humanity into Focus | Afro". 12 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  9. ^ "You've Got to See These Photographs from the African American History Museum's New Exhibit". 2017-05-03. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  10. ^ "These Pictures by Early African-American Photographers Did More Than Capture a Moment". Archived from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  11. ^ "A People's History". 2019-03-14. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.


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