Begun as the Center for African Art, the Museum for African Art's founding director was Susan Mullin Vogel, who had previously worked as Associate Curator in the Department of Primitive Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Begonnen als Center for African Art, war die Gründungsdirektorin des Museums Susan Mullin Vogel, die zuvor als Kuratorin im Department of Primitive Art am Metropolitan Museum of Art tätig war.