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 >
Toby Kamps (CCL 2015) has been named Director of External Projects at White Cube, London. Of his hire, White Cube notes, "Toby joins White Cube from the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, where he held the position of Jane Dale Owen Director and Chief Curator. Since 2016, he has ... Read More >
Vera Grant (CCL 2016) has been named Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the UMMA: University of Michigan Museum of Art. Most recently Director of the The Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, Vera has organized a number of exhibitions and ... Read More >
Highlights from the Fifth Annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice This July, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) convened its fifth annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. The program assembled 15 art history doctoral students from a dozen universities specializing in areas ranging from Roman glass portraits through to modern ... Read More >
The Clark Art Institute announced that Robert Wiesenberger (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2014) has been named the museum's new Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects. Robert participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2014, and completed his doctoral work this year at Columbia University in the City of New York. Over ... Read More >
Julia McHugh (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2014) has been named the Trent A. Carmichael Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Julia participated in the inaugural CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, and was mentored by Ronda Kasl, Curator of Latin American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of ... Read More >
Bronx Museum of the Arts has named Deborah Cullen (CCL 2010) as their next Director. Deborah participated in the CCL Fellowship in 2010 as Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, and in 2012 was appointed Director and Chief Curator at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in the City of New ... Read More >
Soyoung Lee (CCL 2018) has been appointed Chief Curator at the Harvard Art Museums. Soyoung was a member of this year's CCL cohort as a Curator in the Department of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she has overseen the Korean art collection since 2003. Her exhibitions include "Silla: ... Read More >