Jamila Brown

Assistant curator at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, and a practicing artist

Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in photography; Minors in Art History and Journalism, UNC Charlotte (2017)

“There could hardly be a more compelling example of the symbiotic relationship between UNC Charlotte and the larger community than the career and success of Jamila Brown,” Associate Professor of Art History Jim Frakes writes in his history of the department.

Since graduating, Jamila has been active across the local art scene. An internship with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, which she began as a student, continued post-graduation and eventually led to her current position as an assistant curator at the Mint Museum. She has taught photography classes through organizations such as The Light Factory, McColl Center, and at the Lórien Academy of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Mint Museum, Goodyear Arts, and Charlotte’s annual BOOM Festival, and other local venues, and she contributed to Charlotte’s Black Lives Matter street mural in 2020.

Among Jamila’s responsibilities at the Mint is the curation of the Constellation series and the Wednesday Night Live programming, and she has become a sought-after moderator of arts conversations, not only at the Mint, but also at the Projective Eye Gallery, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Goodyear Arts, and the Elder Gallery, among others.

For the Generations exhibition in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Department of Art & Art History, Brown contributed a work from her 2021 installation kin.  “Wading (Of Living Water),” embroidery and inkjet collage on hanging canvas, is part of a triptych and features a silhouette of herself, exploring themes of kinship and family.