Toward an African Methodist Episcopal Aesthetic Idyll: Art and Images at Wilberforce University, 1863-1914

Howard University assistant professor and coordinator of art history Melanee Harvey talks with Kate Clarke Lemay, senior historian and interim director of the Portrait Gallery’s Scholarly Center, discuss the African Methodist Episcopal—the first independent Black religious denomination, and how it influenced Wilberforce University, one of the nation’s first historically Black colleges and universities.