Dr. Tina Dunkley
Tina Dunkley’s service in the arts includes 35 years as Curator and Director of the Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries.
Daughter of West Indian parents and granddaughter of Jamaican artist John Dunkley, whose work hangs in Kingston’s National Gallery, Tina Dunkley has maintained a professional career as an artist throughout her tenure as an arts administrator, curator, writer, and educator. Inspired by the struggles of African descendants displaced throughout the Western Hemisphere, her work explores the experience and politics of denial that informs much of the history of the Americas. She has stated that her work is “influenced by the full-circle recognition of her ancestors’ journey through slavery five generations ago.”
Tina’s Awards have included Atlanta Printmakers Studio Emerging Printmaker Artist-in-Residency (2017), Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, (2014), and a Travel Grant to Pernambuco, Brazil, from the Georgia Partners of the Americas (2001), among others. Tina’s work can be found in collections at the High Museum of Art, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center (Women’s Walk), Marriott Marquis Hotel, Delta Airlines, Hartsfield Airport, Hyundai, AT&T, IBM, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Hammonds House Art Galleries, Thacker Construction Company, Georgia State Art Collection, And Fulton County Arts Council. She has also danced with Katherine Dunham’s troupe and is a talented songstress.
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