Margaret Innes

Margaret Innes

Margaret Innes is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, where she specializes in the history of photography. Her dissertation examines the visual rhetoric of left-wing mass media in America between 1926 and 1951 in relation to photographic and curatorial practices of the period, with a particular focus on the reception of montage and worker photography. She completed a B.A. in Studio Art and French Studies at Wesleyan University and an M.A. in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY and has worked for Magnum Photos and the photo book imprint Steidl Dangin. She has held research positions and internships at the International Center of Photography, the Magnum Foundation, and Deborah Bell Gallery. She is currently the Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and will serve as a 2017–2018 Luce/ACLS Fellow in American Art.

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CCL To Convene Fourth Annual Seminar in Curatorial Practice

The Center for Curatorial Leadership Selects Fifteen Art History Doctoral Students for its 2017 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice This July, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) will host fifteen art history doctoral students for the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Building on the success of the first ... Read More >

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2017-08-03

Program Highlights | 2017 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar

Highlights from the Fourth Annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice This summer, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) hosted fifteen art history doctoral students in New York City for the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Designed to offer emerging scholars the knowledge and skills to pursue curatorial work, ... Read More >

Seminar Advancement

2019-01-23

Tucson Museum of Art appoints Kristopher Driggers (Seminar 2017) as Assistant Curator, Bernard and Jeanette Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art,

Congratulations to Kristopher Driggers (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) who has been named Assistant Curator, Bernard and Jeanette Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art at the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. Kris participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2017, and expects to complete his doctoral work in ... Read More >

Seminar Advancement

2020-01-27

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Alexis Bard Johnson (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) has been named Curator at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Library. Johnson participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2017 and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at Stanford University where ... Read More >

Seminar Advancement

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Juliana Barton (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) Named Director of the Northeastern University Center for the Arts

Juliana Barton (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) has been named director of the Center for the Arts at Northeastern University!  Most recently, Juliana co-curated the exhibition Designing Motherhood, which is currently on view at the Mütter Museum and the Center for Architecture and Design. She is an inaugural ACLS Leading Edge Fellow working with the Center ... Read More >

Seminar Advancement

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Erica DiBenedetto (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) named Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art

Erica DiBenedetto (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) has been named Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculture at The Museum of Modern Art!  Erica has held curatorial positions and graduate internships at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Clark Art Institute, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Princeton ... Read More >