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Kelly Quinn

Kelly Quinn is a historian and community organizer who lives and works in Baltimore City. She is the former Terra Foundation Project Manager for Online Scholarly and Educational Initiatives at the Archives of American Art.

Stories from this author

Dorr Bothwell in her studio (detail), 1967 / Bill Foote, photographer. Dorr Bothwell papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Dorr Bothwell and Polynesian Patterns

Photograph of Alma Thomas at Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition opening (detail), 1972 / unidentified photographer. Alma Thomas papers, circa 1894-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Alma's Stripes: How An Artist Found Abstraction in Her Work and Her Fashion

Alma Thomas, ca. 1958 / unidentified photographer. Alma Thomas papers, 1894-2000, bulk 1936-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

How Painter Alma Thomas Brought African American History to D.C. Public Schools