Roslyn Adele Walker

Senior curator of the arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific, and the Margaret McDermott curator of African art

Dallas Museum of Art

Roslyn Adele Walker is the Dallas Museum of Art's senior curator of the Arts of africa, the Americas, and the Pacific as well as the Margaret McDermott curator of African art, a position she has held since December 2003. She is also serving as the museum's interim chief curator. Walker was awarded a both a master of arts degree (1969) and a doctor of philosophy degree (1991) in art history, specializing in African art, by Indiana University. She was a student of Professor Roy Sieber and was his graduate assistant while she was working on her master's degree. Later, Walker was Sieber’s research assistant for the African Textiles and Decorative Arts exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and his co-curator of African Art in the Cycle of Life, one of the inaugural exhibitions for the new National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in 1987. Walker met Dr. Sieber while an undergraduate working in the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) Museum. She contributed “Remembering Roy Sieber (1923-2001)” to an issue of African Arts devoted to African art ancestors and elders published in autumn 2017.