Located inside the James B. Dudley Memorial Building, the university galleries are home to the Mattye Reed African Heritage and the H. Clinton Taylor Collections. Founded in the late 1960s, the Reed African Heritage Collection is dedicated to the ancestral and contemporary arts of Africa and the Caribbean.[34] The Reed Collection houses around 3,500 artifacts, art, and craft items from more than 35 African and Caribbean nations.[35] The collection is named for Mattye Reed, the site's first curator and director.