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Julia McHugh (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2014) named the Trent A. Carmichael Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

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 names Deborah Cullen (CCL 2010) as next Director

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) appointed Chief Curator at the Harvard Art Museums

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 >

2018-06-04

CCL Selects PhD Students for Fifth Annual Seminar in Curatorial Practice

The Center for Curatorial Leadership to Convene its 2018 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice This July, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) will welcome fifteen art history doctoral students to New York City for the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. This fifth iteration of the program will bring ... Read More >

Stephanie Tung (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2015) named Assistant Curator, Exhibitions Research and Publishing at the Peabody Essex Museum

Stephanie Tung, a participant in the 2015 CCL/Mellon Seminar program, has been named Assistant Curator, Exhibitions Research and Publishing at the Peabody Essex Museum. Tung is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University, finishing her dissertation “Pictorial China: Art Photography in Republican Era China, 1923 — 1932.”. She specializes in Chinese ... Read More >

Program Highlights | 2018 CCL Fellowship Wraps Up in Houston

The 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) Fellowship concluded this May with a weeklong intensive in Houston, Texas. Over the course of the final convening, the Fellows expanded on their lessons from the five-month period of the program and explored various models of museum leadership. Through Houston’s rich cultural landscape ... Read More >

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston names Reto Thüring (CCL 2016) as Chair, Linde Family Wing of Contemporary Art and Arthur K. Solomon Curator of Modern Art

We are delighted for Reto Thüring (CCL 2016), who will be joining the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as its Chair, Linde Family Wing of Contemporary Art and Arthur K. Solomon Curator of Modern Art. Since 2012, Reto has been a curator at The Cleveland Museum of Art, where he most recently chaired ... Read More >

CCL Releases 2017 Annual Report

The Center for Curatorial Leadership celebrates its tenth anniversary with its 2017 Annual Report The Center for Curatorial Leadership's (CCL) 2017 Annual Report commemorates the organization's tenth year of training art museum curators to become visionary and effective leaders. The Annual Report includes summaries of the 2017 CCL Fellowship and CCL/Mellon Foundation ... Read More >

Curatorial Chat | Zoë Ryan at the helm of the Art Institute’s architecture and design department

Zoë Ryan joined the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 as the inaugural Neville Bryan Curator of Design, and in 2011 was named chair of the Department of Architecture and Design. Ryan’s tenure marked an expanded scope for the museum and its collection with the introduction of design to the ... Read More >

Rochelle Steiner (CCL 2009) named Associate Director & Chief Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Congratulations to Rochelle Steiner (CCL 2009), who has been named the new Associate Director & Chief Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Since 2010, Steiner has been a professor of critical studies at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, and previously held curatorial and directorial positions at Public Art Fund, Serpentine Galleries, ... Read More >