{"id":21,"name":"Michelle Black Smith","url":"","description":"Michelle Black Smith is a curator, cultural historian, and divinity school student.  She received her Bachelor\u2019s Degree at Princeton University with a major in Art History, and her Master\u2019s Degree with Honors at S.U.N.Y. Fashion Institute of Technology with a major in Museum Studies.  Black Smith has either acted as guest curator or consultant to numerous museums, arts organizations and cultural and educational institutions, including but not limited to, the Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Motown Historical Museum, Henry Ford Museum, Jazz Museum at 18th and Vine, Black Fashion Museum, and the Bridgeport, CT Public School system.  She is a lecturer at schools and libraries, and institutions of higher learning.  \r\n\r\nBlack Smith resides with her family in her home town of Bridgeport, where she is a co-founder of the city\u2019s first charter elementary school.","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/author\/michelle-black-smith\/","slug":"michelle-black-smith","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michelle-Black-Smith.jpg","48":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michelle-Black-Smith.jpg","96":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michelle-Black-Smith.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}