Johanna Burton (CCL 2019) has been nameed Director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University. Previously the director and curator of education and public engagement at the New Museum in New York City, Burton will begin her Directorship at the Wexner in March. “Johanna is the perfect ... Read More >
Andrea Bayer (CCL 2012), who has been named the Deputy Director for Collections and Administration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Andrea joined the Met in 1989 and was most recently the Jayne Wrightsman Curator in the Department of European Paintings. In this capacity, she organized exhibitions including "Painters ... Read More >
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) has selected twelve curators for participation in the 2019 class of its annual Fellowship. Following the organization’s most competitive review process to date, the cohort chosen for the program will convene from January through May 2019. The program includes three weeks of in-session instruction, ... Read More >
The Portland Art Museum has announced Kathleen Ash-Milby (CCL 2015) as its new Curator of Native American Art. Over the course of nearly two decades as an Associate Curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, Kathleen has organized numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary Native art. In 2016, she was also ... Read More >
Seattle Art Museum has named Theresa Papanikolas (CCL 2016) as their new Curator of American Art. Theresa participated in the CCL Fellowship in 2016 as Curator of European and American Art at the Honolulu Museum of Art and was later named Deputy Director of Art and Programs. Her most recent exhibition, Georgia O'Keefe: Visions ... Read More >
Elizabeth (Buffy) Easton, Director and Co-founder of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), has been awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal—the highest honor accorded to alumni of Yale University's Graduate School. The award recognizes Easton's contributions as an art historian, curator, and co-founder, with Agnes Gund, of the Center for Curatorial Leadership in 2007. ... Read More >
Valerie Hillings (CCL 2016) has been named the Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Valerie will join the NCMA from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museumwhere she has worked since 2004—most recently as Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. During her time in the CCL Fellowship, ... Read More >
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has named Christina Nielsen (CCL 2017) the Hannah and Russel Kully Director of the Art Collections. Most recently the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection and Exhibition Program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Christina completed the CCL Fellowship last year, completing ... Read More >
Akili Tomassino (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2014) has been named the new Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Most recently, Akili served as Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, where he organized the exhibition "Projects 101: Lone ... Read More >
We're thrilled for Naomi Beckwith (CCL 2017), who has been promoted to Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Naomi completed the CCL Fellowship last year, where she participated in CCL's signature curriculum and received mentorship from Adam Weinberg at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently, she ... Read More >