Charmaine Branch

Charmaine Branch is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. She studies modern and contemporary art of the Black Diaspora, with interests in printmaking, community-oriented pedagogy, and Black feminism. Her dissertation considers Black women artists’ contributions to Black intellectual histories of collecting and archiving in the United States. Branch’s research has been supported by the Joshua C. Taylor Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Billops-Hatch Fellowship at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and the Princeton University Effron Center for the Study of America.  

Before beginning her PhD, Branch worked as a Curatorial Fellow at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Modern Art. She has held various positions at other art institutions, including the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Wallach Art Gallery, Dia:Beacon, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Branch received an M.A. in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College. This fall, she will be a Tyson Scholar of American Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art. 

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Announcing the 2025 Cohort of the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the 2025 cohort of the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Now in its eleventh year, the Seminar will provide twelve outstanding students from around the world with the opportunity to engage in the critical responsibilities of museums today.  The ... Read More >