The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the 2023 cohort of doctoral students selected for the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. With the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2023 marks the ninth year that CCL has provided advanced graduate students with the knowledge ... Read More >
Twelve Curators Announced for Sixteenth Annual Intensive Training Program The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is excited to introduce its 2023 cohort of Fellows. Now in its sixteenth year, the CCL Fellowship is the preeminent leadership program for curators, providing them the skills and tools needed to become visionary leaders ... Read More >
Emily Ballew Neff (CCL 2013) has been named Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art! Most recently, Neff served as director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art for six years. While at the Memphis Brooks, she oversaw the museums’s relocation to a new building in downtown Memphis and instituted ... Read More >
Humberto Moro (CCL 2021) has been named Deputy Director of Program at Dia Art Foundation! Moro is currently Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo, as well as Adjunct Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art. While at Museo Tamayo, Moro has curated OTRXS MUNDXS (2020–21), a large-scale survey of artists ... Read More >
René Morales (CCL 2019) has been named Chief Curator of the MCA Chicago! René is currently the director of curatorial affairs and chief curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). During his tenure at PAMM, Morales has curated over 50 exhibitions. Curatorial projects include Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, 1980–83 (2018), Dara Friedman: Perfect ... Read More >
Anita Bateman (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2016) has been named Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston! Bateman has held curatorial positions at RISD Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Some of her exhibitions include, Black Flyyy ... Read More >
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the milestone fifteenth cohort of curators participating in its annual Fellowship. Following a competitive review process, twelve Fellows were selected for their exceptional curatorial and scholarly excellence, demonstrated collaborative thinking, and commitment to cultural leadership. The incoming class of Fellows ... Read More >
Sarah Suzuki (MoMA ICI 2015) has been named Associate Director of The Museum of Modern Art! Suzuki has been at MoMA since 1998. She has held many roles at MoMA, including research assistant, curator, and deputy director of curatorial affairs. Suzuki also oversaw MoMA's expansion project, completed in 2019. Some of ... Read More >
Erica DiBenedetto (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) has been named Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculture at The Museum of Modern Art! Erica has held curatorial positions and graduate internships at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Clark Art Institute, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Princeton ... Read More >
Juliana Barton (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) has been named director of the Center for the Arts at Northeastern University! Most recently, Juliana co-curated the exhibition Designing Motherhood, which is currently on view at the Mütter Museum and the Center for Architecture and Design. She is an inaugural ACLS Leading Edge Fellow working with the Center ... Read More >