The Donald P. Sowell Committee

The Donald P. Sowell Endowment Committee (Sowell Committee) was established in 1993 as a tribute to Donald P. Sowell (1929-1989), an important Cincinnati artist and art educator.

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The Sowell Committee promotes greater interaction and involvement of the African American community with the Cincinnati Art Museum. In doing so they oversee an endowment in Mr. Sowell’s name and act as a recommending body for the disbursements of its funds to promote African American art, programs, exhibitions and other art forms of interest to the African American community. The Sowell Committee also provides educational and social fundraising activities that benefit the endowment and the museum.

All programs will begin at 2 p.m., unless otherwise noted. We kindly request that you RSVP for all programs to [email protected].

Board Members

Cynthia Collins, Chair
Linda Meador, Secretary
Myra Paige-Livingston, Treasurer
Jim Jones, Past Chair
Katrina Mundy, Past Chair
Consuelo Harris, Member-at-Large

Annual Dues

$50 per person

For more information, please contact the Philanthropy Office at [email protected] or 513-639-2865.

If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at [email protected] or fill out the accessibility request form.

2026 Programs

Sunday, January 11, 2026, 2–4 p.m., Fath Auditorium

Register for the January 11 program

Hear from Peter Jonathan Bell, PhD, Curator of European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings about the Cincinnati Art Museum’s collection of Renaissance art, specifically works from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This lecture will highlight the presence of Black Africans in European Art and offer essential insight into the developments that shaped this transformative period.

Sunday, February 1, 2–4 p.m. Fath Auditorium

Register for the February 1 program

Join Peter Niehoff, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, as he examines the history of film, spotlighting Oscar Micheaux—the first major Black filmmaker in the United States—and his clash with D.W. Griffith.