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Makers Series: Interview with Professor/Multi-Media Artist/Gallery Owner Kimberly Camp

Posted on the 28 February 2017 by Terinanicole @theterinanicole
Meet Kimberly Camp: Museum-Founder. Painter. Sculptor. Doll-maker. Art Professor. Rule-breaker. Owner of Galerie Marie, located at 709 Haddon Avenue in Collingwood, NJ.Makers Series: Interview with Professor/Multi-Media Artist/Gallery Owner Kimberly CampGalerie Marie has paintings, sculpture, dolls, prints, drawings, photography, jewelry and other crafts by artists from around the world. The gallery also features paintings and dolls by Kimberly Camp, whose work has appeared in over 100 exhibitions around the world. Makers Series: Interview with Professor/Multi-Media Artist/Gallery Owner Kimberly CampMakers Series: Interview with Professor/Multi-Media Artist/Gallery Owner Kimberly CampMiss Camp is also the former CEO of the Barnes Foundation, one of my all-time favorite museums, so it was such an honor for me to snag a few hours of Ms. Camp's time for this sit-down, face-to-face interview. She is a very busy woman and rightfully so. Kimberly is the proprietor of the only Black-owned art gallery in Collingswood, a gorgeous space that carries the work of artisans from allover the world that she discovers in her travels and by attending trade shows. But before opening her gallery, she's been a life-long artist and that journey has taken her throughout the art world working for prestigious museums---not a very inclusive environment for women of color.Our interview was long (almost 2 hours) and as luscious as I expected it to be, so I recorded it. There were shoppers and Christmas carolers

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