Calinda N. Lee is a historian at the Atlanta History Center. She is currently curating an exhibit on the history of Atlanta opening there in March 2016.
Michael E. Shapiro is the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. He spearheaded the Museum’s 177,000-square-foot expansion by Renzo Piano that opened in November 2005, and helped establish the Georgia Art Museum Partnership initiative in 2010.
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