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Emma Chubb

Emma Chubb

Emma Chubb is the inaugural Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smith College Museum of Art. Her essays on the representation of migration in contemporary art have appeared in Art Journal and Journal of Arabic Literature.  icon

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Patricia Banks on Supporting African American Museums

By Emma Chubb

Studies of museum patronage mostly focus on social class. That's not the whole story.

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