Bettye Stull

Bettye J. Stull (June 13, 1931 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a curator, arts educator, and collector and is a pivotal figure in the Columbus Black arts community,^[1] known for her mentorship of young Black women, including artist April Sunami and activist Jessica Byrd.^[2][3] In her work as staff curator at the King Arts Complex, she was the founding director of the Elijah Pierce Gallery. Her other African and African-American art shows have appeared at the Ohio Craft Museum, the McCoy Community Arts Center, the Cultural Arts Center^[4] and several other area venues.^[1] She served as an art advisor for the Long Street Bridge “Culture Wall,”^[1] a collaboration between the City of Columbus, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, and the Ohio Department of Transportation, which created an innovative arts-based solution to the long-standing problem of urban neighborhoods divided by freeways.^[5]