Bio

Martina Dodd is an Atlanta based art historian and curator. She is currently the Program Director of Curation and Object-Based Learning at the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library and a founding editor of DIRT, a writing collective and online journal advocating for critical discourse and increased accessibility in the arts.

She has curated exhibitions for Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library, Prince George's African American Museum and Cultural Center, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Transformer, and DC Arts Center. She routinely partners with academic institutions and art organizations to curate innovative and inclusive conference programming. Her recent programming highlights include “Inclusive Innovation: Designing the Future of Atlanta” for the Atlanta Studies Symposium in 2021, “Sustaining Futures” for Common Field Convening in 2021, and “Toward a Radical Imagination: HBCU, Digital Libraries, and Authentic Collaboration” for the Council on Library and Information Resources/Digital Library Federation (CLIR/DLF) and the HBCU Library Alliance in 2023.

In 2019, she was selected as an inaugural mentee for the Association of Art Museum Curators Mentorship Program and a 2022 Authenticity Fellow for the HBCU Library Alliance and the Digital Library Federation. She holds a M.A. in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas from the University of East Anglia and a B.A. in Anthropology and International Studies from Johns Hopkins University.