Daniel Schulman

Daniel Schulman was appointed Executive Director of Jewish Museum Milwaukee in May, 2024. Founded in 2008 as a program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, the museum has quickly become known as one of the most innovative Jewish museum institutions in the midwest. From 2012 to 2024, Schulman was both Director of Visual Art and Public Art at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, where he organized over 100 exhibitions of modern and contemporary art at the Chicago Cultural Center and served as staff lead for the Chicago Monuments Project, a program developed in response to nationwide calls to address inequities inherent in civic monuments and memorials after the murder of George Floyd.

Schulman held curatorial posts at the Art Institute of Chicago (1993-2004) and guest curated and authored the catalog for the exhibition, A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund for Spertus Museum, Chicago in 2009. He is a contributor and co-editor of the book, "Black Designers in Chicago," forthcoming in 2025. Schulman also serves as Executive Director of an Artist Endowed non profit organization,The Stanley and Evelyn Statsinger Cohen Foundation. He was educated at Columbia University in New York (BA 1982) and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts (MA 1986).

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