Dr. Hampton received her undergraduate degree from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, a Masters degree from Illinois State University and the Doctorate degree from Arizona State University.
She has taught undergraduate and
graduate art and art education courses at Northern Illinois University,
California State University at Sacramento and The University of Oregon in
Eugene, and The Pennsylvania State University. She has served as Head of
the Department of Art at Jackson State University in Mississippi, and as
Assistant Director of the Expansion Arts Program at the National Endowment for
the Arts in Washington, D. C. She has held the positions of Director of
the School of Visual Arts in the College of Arts and Architecture, Vice Provost,
and Executive Assistant to the Provost for the Development of the Arts and Head
of African and African American Studies. She was appointed to the university wide
position of Senior Faculty Mentor in 2009 and 2014. As Senior Faculty Mentor she provided a
variety of supportive services to tenure track
faculty members belonging to underrepresented racial/ethnic groups to
facilitate attainment of tenure and promotion throughout the Penn State
University System. During this time she also served as Professor of Art within
the department of integrative Arts and worked with both undergraduate and
graduate students.
Professor Hampton has served on the
board of the National Association of Schools of Arts and Design, and of the
Getty Center for Education in the Arts and review panels for the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She
served as project director and co-author of the “Pennsylvania Arts Curriculum Projects” funded for $130,500 by the
National Endowment for the Arts.
She was an exhibitor as well as a
member of the American Delegation to the Second World Festival of Black and
African Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria and in numerous visual arts and
jewelry exhibitions in the United States. Citations and examples of her
work can be found in publications such as, The
Arts We See by Lanier and Developing
Artistic and Perceptual Awareness by Lindeman and Herberholz.
She has presented papers and
lectures at regional, national and international conferences. Her published
work appears in Studies in Art Education,
the Journal of Negro History, Dimensions and Directions: Black Artists of the
South; published by the Mississippi Museum of Art, International Society for
Education Through Art, The Penn State University Schreyer Institute.
During 2002-03 she was a visiting professor at The Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. She is currently Head of
African and African American Studies, The College of the Liberal Arts, at The
Pennsylvania State University. In 2007, she was in residence as a Senior
Fulbright Specialist at the Obafeme Owolowo University in Ile Ife and has
made presentations at Illorin University, The Federal University of Technology
at Akure and Gombe in Nigeria. She returned to Nigeria and Ghana to continue
her research on the cultural linkages between West African and African
Americans in 2009 and 2010. One of her most recent projects includes the design
of a Penn State honors course “African and African American Arts".
