Grace Elizabeth Hackney

Grace Elizabeth Hackney

MA Student Art History

Grace Hackney is an Art History Master’s student on the research track. Her research focuses on early 20th-century Black American art, specifically women sculptors who studied in France and Italy. With a B.A. in Journalism from Hampton University, she views art curation as a form of journalism, with journalistic principles of accuracy and storytelling serving as foundations of her research practice. Grace has interned at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Barnes Foundation, the Hampton University Museum, and Order of New Arts.