Maurita Poole (CCL 2020) has been name director of the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisana. Poole has been the director and curator of the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum since 2015. While at the Clark, she oversaw the Tina Dunkley Fellowship in American Art, a collaborative ... Read More >
Johanna Burton (CCL 2019) has been named Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles! Since 2019, Burton has been the executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts. Previously, she served as the Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New ... Read More >
Marina Tyquiengco (Seminar 2018) has been named the inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston! Marina has been the Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art at the MFA Boston since 2020. Exhibitions she has been a part of organizing ... Read More >
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the 2021 cohort of doctoral students selected for the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. With the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, since 2014 CCL has provided eight classes of advanced graduate students with the knowledge and ... Read More >
Lauren Haynes (CCL 2018) has been named the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art! Since 2016, Lauren has served as the curator of contempoary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in addition to serving, since 2020, as the Director of ... Read More >
Sarah Meister (CCL 2017, MoMA ICI 2016) has been named Executive Director of the Aperture Foundation! Sarah Meister has been at The Museum of Modern Art since 1997 and became a Curator in the Department of Photography in 2009. She is the lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs on Coursera, ... Read More >
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has named Naomi Beckwith (CCL 2017) Deputy Director and Chief Curator! Naomi has been at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago since 2011, most recently as Senior Curator. Prior to the MCA, Naomi was an associate curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her numerous exhibitions include The ... Read More >
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has named Akili Tommasino (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2014) Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art! Most recently, Akili served as Associate Curator in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Prior to joining the MFA, Akili served as Curatorial Assistant in the ... Read More >
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the fourteenth cohort of curators participating in its annual Fellowship. Following a record number of applications, the review process continued to prove highly competitive. Twelve curators were selected based on their exceptional curatorial achievements, demonstrated innovative thinking, and commitment to ... Read More >
Clare Kobasa (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2019) has been named Assistant Curator at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Kobasa participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2019, and she holds a PhD from Columbia Univerisity. Most recently, Kobasa completed a two-year appointment as the Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the ... Read More >