Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Marquette Folley is the content director at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
She initially came to the Smithsonian in 1983 as a fellow with the National Museum of American History, where she worked on the highly-praised exhibition Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940. She later joined the curatorial staff to expand the Museum’s jazz holdings.
At SITES, Folley served as the exhibition developer and project director for the traveling exhibitions The Negro Motorist Green Book, Men of Change: Power, Triumph. Truth., 100 Faces of War, andRobert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking. Additionally, she co-created the exhibition and book Seeing Jazz.
Related Resources
- Marquette Folley, profile, The Bias Inside Us
- Marquette Folley, profile, AAM2021 Speed Networking Mentors