Amanda Hellman

Director, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery; Senior Lecturer, History of Art and Architecture

A.B., Gerogetown University

M.A., Williams College

Ph.D. and M.B.A., Emory University

African Art; Museum Studies

Amanda H. Hellman (Georgetown University, A.B.; Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, M.A.; and Emory University, Ph.D., M.B.A.) is the director of the Vanderbilt University Art Gallery. Previously she was the curator of African art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. Her exhibitions include And I Must Scream (2022); Strata: an installation by Shannon Collis (2021); Press Here (2021); Between the Sweet Water and the Swarm of Bees (2016); and Southern Connections: Bearden in Atlanta (2014). Dr. Hellman’s research on museum development in West and East Africa reveals how heritage formation and artistic practice are inextricably linked. Recent publications include The Making of Museums in Nigeria: Kenneth C. Murray and Heritage Preservation in Colonial West Africa (2023), And I Must Scream: the monstrous expression of our global crises (2022), “Die and Do: Egungun as a form of resistance and recovery,” in Visible Man: Fahamu Pecou (2018).