Brooke Davis Anderson

Brooke Davis Anderson is director and curator of The Contemporary Center at the American Folk Art Museum. Anderson is curator of the current exhibition Obsessive Drawing (2005) and co-curator of Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the Collection and Folk Art Revealed. She organized the inaugural exhibition in the museum's new building Darger: The Henry Darger Collection as well as Studies and Sketches: Henry Darger (2001). She oversees The Henry Darger Study Center, for which she arranges exhibitions and educational programs around this important collection of paintings and archival material. Other projects organized by Anderson include, A Collection Sampler: Recent Gifts to the Collection (2003) and ABCD: A Collection of Art Brut (2000). She is the author of numerous articles and books about contemporary self-taught artists and their work and has lectured extensively throughout the U.S, Europe, and New Zealand.
From 1992-1999, Ms. Anderson was director of Diggs Gallery and Assistant Professor at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU, a historically black university in North Carolina), where she curated numerous exhibitions, notably Forget-Me-Not: The Art & Mystery of Memory Jugs. In 1999 she was honored by WSSU with the establishment of an endowment in her name.