Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell

Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell is a cultural equity and audience engagement strategist with over 10 years of museum and nonprofit experience at the intersections of social justice and racial equity. As Head of Public Programs with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery she is responsible for leading new outreach and inclusion initiatives towards developing new audiences and cultivating public engagement. In the wake of Covid-19 she leads an internal task force towards reopening planning and strategies. In 2020, she served on a 6-month term detail with the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum to develop a new initiative on race and community. She has previously worked with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora. She has developed college-level art history curricula for the study of art by African Americans and the art of social justice movements for Trinity Washington University. She serves on the Board of Washington Project for the Arts, and on the Artist Selection Committee of Halcyon Arts Lab and VisArts in Rockville, MD. Additionally she co-leads strategic efforts for Museum As Site for Social Action and is a member of the Empathetic Museum since 2017. She received her Bachelor of Art in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park and Master of Art in Museum Studies from George Washington University. She is an alum of the Claremont University Museum Leadership Institute, formerly the Getty.