Michèle Gates Moresi

Michèle Gates Moresi is an American museum curator. Moresi has been a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC since 2006.[1][2]

Career

Moresi studied at George Washington University, where she received a BA degree in 1989, a Master of Philosophy degree in 1997 and a PhD degree in 2003.[3]

At the Museum of African American History and Culture, she initiated the acquisition of the contents of Mae Reeves' millinery store in Philadelphia to the Smithsonian's collection.[4][5] In 2016 Moresi initiated the acquisition of the contents of the Falls Church, Virginia campaign office for Barack Obama's presidential election campaign to the museum's collection.[6][7]

In 2017 she was a co-curator, with Aaron Bryant, of More Than a Picture: Selections from the Photography Collection at the NMAAHC.[8][9]

With Tanya Sheehan and Laura Coyle, she authored Pictures With Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.[10][11]

References
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  11. "A People's History". 2019-03-14. Archived from the original on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.


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