The collections of the University Galleries are the stories of the African Diaspora told on canvas, textiles, in sculpture, music and with personal possessions.

The University Galleries has two focal collections which constitute its permanent collection: the Mattye Reed African Heritage Collection, dedicated to the ancestral and contemporary arts of Africa and the Caribbean and the Henry Clinton Taylor Collection which centers around the work of both emerging and established African American artists.

Both collections and three magnificent gallery spaces are housed in the historic Dudley Building, originally built in 1931.