She is chair of the board of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture.
[4] In explaining her role and her work, King-Hammond has said: The intent of my professional activities in the art world at large has centered on facilitating the means to get artists of color and women more ideally represented in the larger arena... My efforts have focused on the redefinition of history as it more correctly profiles the role of the artists in America.
[citation needed] Dr. King-Hammond was also noted as an expert in an article written by Blake Gopnik in The Washington Post.
[9] While at the Maryland Institute College for Art, King Hammond earned the Trustee Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1986.
She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC) in 2002; an artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2001, an Andy Warhol Foundation curatorial fellowship in 2008, and the Alain Locke International Prize in 2010.