Mary Schmidt Campbell

Mary Schmidt Campbell
10th President of Spelman College
In office
2015–2022
Preceded byBeverly Daniel Tatum
Succeeded byHelene D. Gayle
Personal details
Born (1947-10-21) October 21, 1947 (age 77)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse
​
(m. 1968)​
Alma materSwarthmore College;
Syracuse University
ProfessionMuseum Art Curator
Cultural Affairs Commissioner
College Dean
College President

Mary Schmidt Campbell (born October 21, 1947), is an American academic and government administrator, and museum director. She was the 10th president of Spelman College, serving from 2015 to 2022. Prior to this position, she served as a director and curator for art museums, as the director of the Commission for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and for many years as the Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Early life and education

Schmidt Campbell was born to Elaine and Harvey Schmidt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 21, 1947.[1]

She attended Philadelphia High School for Girls.[2] After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Swarthmore College in 1969, Schmidt Campbell taught English literature at Nkumbi International College in Zambia. She returned to the U.S. and studied art history at Syracuse University, graduating with a masters.[3] She later earned a doctorate in humanities from Syracuse University. Her 1982 doctoral dissertation followed the life of the Afro-American artist Romare Bearden, and his quest struggle to "create a timeless and enduring body of work without relinquishing his unique individual identity".[3][4]

Career

In 1974, Schmidt Campbell became a curator of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York and the art editor at Syracuse New Times.[1]

Studio Museum in Harlem

Her career in New York began at the Studio Museum in Harlem during a time when the city was on the verge of bankruptcy and Harlem was in steep decline. Under her leadership, the Museum was transformed from a rented loft to the country's first accredited Black fine arts museum.[5]

From 1977 to 1987, Schmidt Campbell served as executive director of the Studio Museum. During her tenure there, she steered the museum from a struggling organization located in a loft space above a liquor store to a 60,000 sq. ft. building and into one of the nation's premier black fine-arts museums with an annual $2 million budget.[6][7] At the time, the museum was the only one of its kind to be accredited by the American Association of Museums. Noticing the lack of a facility that could adequately communicate African-American art's "depth and range," she organized a series of exhibitions devoted to the country's leading black artists.[6]

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

In 1987, New York Mayor Ed Koch, invited Schmidt Campbell to serve as the city's cultural affairs commissioner. In this role, she led the Department of Cultural Affairs which oversees the operations and capital development of the city's major cultural institutions. As a commissioner, she gained a reputation as an advocate for large and small arts organizations throughout all five boroughs.[8]

At the age of 40, Schmidt Campbell was sworn in as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs October 1987 by then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch. With an annual $172 million budget, the department provides operating and capital improvement funds to 32 major institutions—including museums, theaters, zoos, and botanical gardens—and grants program money to hundreds of neighborhood arts groups.[7] A few weeks into her tenure, the stock market crashed, whereupon the city government made major budget cuts. The department's budget was initially cut by $7 million, but Schmidt Campbell was able to minimize the cuts to $1 million.[9]

One of her main accomplishments was organizing and fundraising "New York and the Arts: A Cultural Affair," a campaign focused on promoting cultural activities throughout the city and encouraging attendance. Other accomplishments included a pilot program focused on introducing the arts to low-income youth.[9]

In 1989, she was reappointed by Mayor Koch's successor, David Dinkins. At her swearing-in ceremony in 1990, she proposed that the city's budget on drug education should be reallocated to her department for cultural and recreational programs for schoolchildren, saying that "if our children can be addicted to the power of language and the excitement of ideas, if they have the benefit of the time and attention of creative adults who have only the highest expectation of them, if excellence and discipline are the standards set for them, they will rise to the occasion."[10]

In May 1990, the Smithsonian Institution named Schmidt Campbell to be the chairwoman of a 22-member advisory board to study ways to exhibit the heritage of black Americans on the National Mall, which laid the groundwork for the creation of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.[11]

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

On October 1, 1991, Schmidt Campbell was named dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. During her tenure, Schmidt Campbell expanded the school's arts profile, including digital media in addition to theater, film, and television, increased the recruitment of a more diverse faculty and student body, and led an unprecedented capital campaign for the school.[12] In 2008, Schmidt Campbell established the Tisch Talent Identification Process, a program that recruits high-performing, high-need students to the school.[13]

Tisch also founded new disciplines and departments, "including a moving image archiving and preservation program, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and a dual M.B.A.-M.F.A. degree with the Stern School of Business at N.Y.U."[13]

In September 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Schmidt Campbell as the vice chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.[14]

Spelman College presidency (2015–2022)

Schmidt Campbell assumed the role of president of Spelman College on August 1, 2015, where she succeeded Beverly Daniel Tatum. Under her leadership, Spelman moved from 77 to 57 on the U.S. News & World Report annual Best College rankings and ranked No.1 HBCU for the 13th year in a row. In addition, the college secured the No. 6 spot on U.S. News' inaugural list of Top Performers on Social Mobility.[15][16]

Schmidt Campbell retired from Spelman College on June 30, 2022. Her successor is American doctor Helene D. Gayle.

Awards and honors

Schmidt Campbell currently sits on the boards of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,[17] the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,[18] the High Museum of Art,[19] the J. Paul Getty Trust,[20][21] and is on the Advisory Boards of the Bonner Foundation, and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.[22]

She was previously on the boards of the American Academy in Rome,[23] the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the United Nations International School.

Schmidt Campbell is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[24] She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1986.[25]

Schmidt Campbell holds several honorary degrees, including one from her alma mater, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, as well as the College of New Rochelle, Colgate University, City University of New York, and Pace University.

At Syracuse, she has been honored with the Arents Pioneer Medal (1993), a Chancellor's Citation and the College of Arts and Sciences' Distinguished Alumni Award.[3] She was also awarded an honorary degree (2021).[26]

Personal life

Schmidt Campbell lives in  Atlanta, Georgia. She has been married since 1968 to physicist George Campbell Jr.,[27] who is president emeritus of the Cooper Union, and they are the parents of three sons.[28]

Selected works 

Schmidt Campbell has published books on variety of topics. Some of the books include:

  • An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780195059090. OCLC 1103917174. For this book, she won the 2018 Hooks National Book Award from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis.[29][30][31][32]
  • Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts. New York: Taylor & Francis. 2006. ISBN 9780415978668. OCLC 963681661.
  • Memory and metaphor : the art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem. 1991. ISBN 9780195063479. OCLC 885231664. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  • Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1987. ISBN 9780810981287. OCLC 13945412.

Schmidt Campbell has contributed to several discussions, articles on higher education topics. In 2020, she penned an op-ed for The New York Times in response to how the college was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.[33] She also appeared on MSNBC's PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting historically Black colleges and universities.[34]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mary Schmidt Campbell's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  2. ^ Snyder, Susan (March 28, 2015). "Art scholar Mary Schmidt Campbell to be president of Spelman College in Atlanta". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Spelman College Names Syracuse University Alumna as Next President". SU News. April 2, 2015. Archived from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  4. ^ Schmidt Campbell, Mary (1982). Romare Bearden: A Creative Mythology (Thesis). Syracuse University.
  5. ^ "Biography: Mary Schmidt Campbell". spelman.edu. Archived from the original on February 12, 2022.
  6. ^ a b Anderson, Susan Heller (July 28, 1987). "DIRECTOR OF HARLEM MUSEUM SEEN AS MYERSON SUCCESSOR". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Robertson, Nan (November 18, 1987). "New York's New Culture Chief". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  8. ^ "Resources - DCLA". www1.nyc.gov. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  9. ^ a b Honan, William H. (December 9, 1989). "New Administration: Profiles of Dinkins's Eight Appointees; Mary Schmidt Campbell: Commissioner of Cultural Affairs". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  10. ^ "Culture Chief Asks Use of Drug Plan Funds". The New York Times. February 21, 1990. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  11. ^ "Dr. Campbell Heads Panel On Museum For Blacks". The New York Times. May 8, 1990. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  12. ^ Shonna, Keogan (September 9, 2013). "Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean of NYU Tisch, to Step Down". New York University Website.
  13. ^ a b Pogrebin, Robin (December 1, 2013). "Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell Looks Beyond the Tisch School". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  14. ^ Brownlee, Dana (March 11, 2020). "Celebrating Women's History Month With Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell". Forbes. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  15. ^ "Rankings and Awards Spelman College". www.spelman.edu. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  16. ^ Edmonson, Crystal (March 19, 2020). "Spelman College president talks art and affirmation (Video)". Biz Journals. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  17. ^ "Trustees". sloan.org. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  18. ^ "Board of Trustees: About Us: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation". www.ddcf.org. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  19. ^ "People". High Museum of Art. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  20. ^ "Robinson, Mary, (born 21 May 1944), President, and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, since 2010", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, December 1, 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.32885
  21. ^ "Board of Trustees". www.getty.edu. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  22. ^ "AGB Council of Presidents". AGB. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  23. ^ "Board of Trustees: American Academy in Rome". www.aarome.org. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  24. ^ "Mary Schmidt Campbell". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  25. ^ "Candace Award Recipients 1982-1990, Page 1". National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Archived from the original on March 14, 2003.
  26. ^ "Syracuse University to Award Three Honorary Degrees at 2021 Commencement". SU News. May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  27. ^ "Finding Aid to The HistoryMakers ® Video Oral History with Mary Schmidt Campbell" (PDF). The HistoryMakers. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
  28. ^ "About Dr. Campbell". Spelman College. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
  29. ^ "Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell Wins 2018 Hooks National Book Award". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. July 26, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  30. ^ "An American Odyssey: Spelman College". www.spelman.edu. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  31. ^ Emerling, Jae (September 17, 2019). "An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden by Mary Schmidt Campbell (review)". African American Review. 52 (3): 313–315. doi:10.1353/afa.2019.0038. ISSN 1945-6182. S2CID 204480142.
  32. ^ "PODCAST: An American Odyssey—Mary Schmidt Campbell on Artist Romare Bearden". The Getty Iris. May 15, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  33. ^ Campbell, Mary Schmidt (April 23, 2020). "Spelman College Faces a Redefined Reality". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  34. ^ President Campbell - Politics Nation, retrieved August 28, 2020

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