Jamaal Sheats is the Director and Curator of Fisk University Galleries, and an Assistant Professor in the university’s Art Department. Since joining the Galleries in 2015, he has curated many exhibitions, expanded and nurtured various partnerships, and designed innovative programs to foster access to, and engagement with the Galleries' collections.
As an artist, he received commissions from entities such as the National Museum of African-American Music and the 2019 Havana Biennial as part of Maria Magdalena Campos- Pons’ Intermittent Rivers. Sheats is a Trustee of the Frist Art Museum and Board Member of the HBCU Alliance of Museums and Galleries; Association of Academic Museum and Galleries; and the Maddox Fund. He received a MFA from Tufts University and BS in Art from Fisk University.
