Dereck Stafford Mangus, Beloved Baltimore Artist and Museum Guard, Dies at 46
Chris Garlock | Published on 8/2/2024
Dereck Stafford Mangus, a beloved Baltimore-based artist, writer, and cultural worker, passed
away on Sunday, July 7 at the age of 46. Mangus worked as a museum guard as well as a prolific, award-winning writer. He leaves behind a vast collection of essays and reviews at Hyperallergic, Artblog, the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) Full Bleed, BmoreArt, and Frieze, where he was the 2018 winner of the Frieze Writer’s Prize. After experiencing a successful workers union at the Harvard Art Museums, Mangus helped guide the effort toward unionization at the BMA in 2022. – Cara Ober, Hyperallergic; A group photo of the Guarding the Art curators, with Dereck Mangus standing fourth from left next to BMA Director Asma Naeem (photo courtesy the Baltimore Museum of Art) Read more >>