The Laureate...

is the creative thinker selected from the areas of the arts, the sciences, the humanities, and public service.

Johnnetta B. Cole

2011 Laureate

I tend to look at problems in ways that I think are very, very much in the anthropological tradition...one appreciates the tradition, but second, one also at least raises the possibility that there are different ways of doing things."

Anthropologist, educator and author Johnnetta Cole became the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate on April 8, 2011 at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum. More