Lee A. Ransaw is Founder and Executive Director of the National Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Dr. Ransaw has served as Chairman and Professor of Art at Morris Brown College as well as Dean of Arts & Letters at the college. Past teaching experiences include art history at Emory University, art education at The University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin and Spelman College in Atlanta. His studies in art include Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois where he received his doctorate in Art and Arts Administration. Among his many honors and awards was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, an Andrew W. Mellon Grant, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Distinguished UNCF Scholars award to study in Europe, a Bronze Jubilee for artist of artistic achievement, a Groit Award by the Southern Conference of Afro-American Women, and a Eugene Grigsby Award given by the National Art Education Association. Lee was recently named one of the “History Makers of America,” where his record has been placed in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and is the co-author of Below the Surface: Ethnic Echoes in America’s Modern and Contemporary Art published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.