Angela D. Mack is former President & CEO of the Gibbes Museum of Art. Her publications include Landscape of Slavery:  The Plantation in American Art (2008); Edward Hopper in Charleston (2008); Henry Benbridge (1743-1812): Charleston Portrait Painter (2001); and In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860 (1999). Contributions to several books, exhibition catalogues, and periodicals include Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Read-Simms Collection, 2021, The Life and Art of Alfred Hutty:  Woodstock to Charleston, 2011, The Magazine Antiques, Sculpture Magazine, American Art Review, and South Carolina Historical Society Magazine. During her 44-year career at the Gibbes she organized 300+ exhibitions in her positions as Curator of Collections, Chief Curator, and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, before becoming Executive Director in 2008. In 2009 and 2024 Mrs. Mack successfully took the Gibbes through its third and fourth reaccreditation process with the American Alliance of Museums.

Honors, awards and grants include: SC Governor’s Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award, Organization, 2019; The Riley Institute Fellow, Furman University, Class of XII, 2017; Robert N.S and Patti Foos Whitelaw Founders Award, presented by Historic Charleston Foundation, 2017; Caropolis Award for the restoration of the Gibbes Museum of Art presented by the Preservation Society of Charleston, 2016; National Endowment for the Humanities Award for Collections Storage Suit installation, 2014; The Henry Luce Foundation Award for the reinstallation of the Gibbes Museum permanent collection, 2014; Mary Ellen Lopresti Literary Award for the publication Landscape of Slavery:  The Plantation in American Art, 2008; National Endowment for the Arts Award for the exhibition Landscape of Slavery:  The Plantation in American Art, 2006.

Mrs. Mack serves on the History Commission of the city of Charleston. She is immediate past chair of the Charleston Heritage Federation and immediate past member of the Board of the Charleston Area Visitors and Convention Bureau.  She has served on The Citadel Humanities and Social Sciences Advisor Committee, the scholars committee for the NYC Winter Antique Show exhibition, and has lectured at Sotheby’s Institute in NYC, the Winter Antique Show, NYC, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA, the National Decorative Arts Trust in Washington, DC., and numerous educational and philanthropic organizations in South Carolina.

Mrs. Mack received her B.A. in Art History from Vanderbilt University, completed coursework for her M.A. in Art History from Tulane University, and received a Certificate in Fine Arts Appraisal Studies from NYU.