Danny Dunson is an art historian, critic, curator, and writer. He is a Director of Curatorial Services at DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago. Dunson graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Art History and received both a Fulbright Grant and Gilman Scholarship. Exhibition projects include The Color is: Nick Cave and Jack Cave at the DuSable Museum Roundhouse, In Memoriam, Portraits of the Middle Passage, In Situ at the Cape Coast Castle Museum in Ghana, and Collective Reflections: African and Diasporic Expressions of the New Vanguard in Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana. He founded the Legacy Brothers and The Lab, an artist development consultancy designed to prepare emerging artists of disadvantaged communities to enter the art world by providing grants for studio spaces, supplies, and living expenses.