Brooklyn Museum announces new curator of African arts, library director
The Brooklyn Museum has announced two new appointments to the Curatorial Affairs team. Ernestine White-Mifetu has been appointed Sills Foundation curator of African Art, and Abigail L. Dansiger has been appointed director of libraries and archives. Both started at the Museum on March 1, 2022.
In her role as Sills Foundation Curator of African Art, White-Mifetu will be instrumental in developing permanent galleries dedicated to the Museum’s Arts of Africa collection. The Brooklyn Museum has one of the largest collections of African art in the United States, with over 6,000 works spanning 2,500 years and representing more than one hundred cultures.
As the museum moves from fundraising for the new galleries into the next phase of architectural planning, White-Mifetu will lead the reinstallation with a focus on expanding the canon through new interpretations. With 20 years of experience working with contemporary visual and performance art of the African continent and its diaspora, White-Mifetu will bring the Brooklyn Museum’s extensive collection of African art to life by telling new stories and building connections for today’s audiences and the local Brooklyn community.