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American art scholar

Alvia J. Wardlaw (born November 5, 1947) is an American art scholar, and one of the country's top experts on African-American art.^[1] She is Curator and Director of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, an institution central to the development of art by African Americans in Houston.

She also is a professor of Art History at Texas Southern University. Wardlaw is a member of the Scholarly Advisory Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and co-founded the National Alliance of African and African American Art Support groups in 1998.^[2] Wardlaw was University of Texas at Austin's first African-American PhD in Art History.^[3]

Career

From 1995 to 2009, Wardlaw was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she organized more than 75 exhibitions on African and African-American art.^[4] She was adjunct curator of African-Am