Alumna Anne Wilkes Tucker ’67 featured in Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal recently published a column about the career of Anne Wilkes Tucker ’67. On the occasion of Tucker’s upcoming retirement after nearly 40 years of curating photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), the Journal interviewed her about her career.

The column highlights her groundbreaking exhibitions on Czech Modernism, Japanese photography, and war photography. It also touches on changes she has seen during her career.

Tucker, who first worked with photography when she took photos for the Randolph-Macon Woman’s College newspaper and yearbook, has grown MFAH’s photography collection from just 141 prints when she arrived there in 1976 to more than 29,000 prints by more than 4,000 artists today.

She also is a member of the Randolph College Board of Trustees.

Read the full story here: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579439602433136322

Alumna's unprecedented exhibition Receiving more national attention

Anne Wilkes Tucker '67

An exhibition curated in part by alumna and Board of Trustee member Anne Wilkes Tucker '67 is receiving more national attention, this time on PBS NewsHour.

Tucker, curator for photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) worked with colleagues to create War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. The exhibition opened last year and explores the experience of war through the eyes of photographers. The show features 480 objects and photos from more than 280 photographers from 28 nations. The powerful exhibition spans 165 years of conflicts all over the world, beginning with the Mexican-American War in 1847.


The PBS piece is available here

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365077119/

To read more about Tucker, please see the article in the November 2012 issue of Randolph magazine:
http://www.randolphcollege.edu/magazine_2012_4_1_eye_of_the_beholder.xml.