MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines. This presentation is organized by January Parkos Arnall, Interim Senior Curator, with the Performance and Public Practice team.

About the Speakers

Linda Johnson Rice

Linda Johnson Rice serves as chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company; where she became the first African American woman CEO among the top five of the Black Enterprise 100s largest black-owned companies. Johnson Rice serves as President of the Chicago Public Library Board of Directors and also serves on the Board of Directors of Omnicom Group, Grubhub, and Enova and is a council member of The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Northwestern Memorial Corporation; and a trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Johnson Rice has stewarded the treasured Ebony/Jet photo archives through a consortium of foundations led by the J. Paul Getty Trust, with co-purchasers the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. The archives are shared between the Getty Foundation and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Funding

The Richard and Mary L. Gray Lectures are made possible through a generous gift to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign.