HALIMA TAHA
Halima Taha is an art professional whose curatorial, art advisory, gallery, appraisal, strategic planning, writing and management services develop corporate, not-for-profit, academic and civic programs and audiences. She is best known for her groundbreaking best seller, Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas, the first book to validate collecting fine art, printmaking and photography by Americans of African descent as viable assets and commodities in the market. It was also used as a choice PBS membership incentive raising three times its fundraising goal. In addition, her work provided the foundation, in conjunction with the historic National Black Fine Art Show (1997-2009), for cultivating and educating the market that enabled Swann Galleries to successfully establish the first African American auction category within an international arena since 2008. Her work was also the catalyst for major museums to pursue collections of African American Art for exhibition within the last 20 years, worldwide. She is an arts advocate committed to nurturing the development, documentation and acquisition of Black visual culture as a professional speaker and arts writer for Artnet, Black Art In America, Pigment,Tribes and SugarCane Magazine.