Chief Curator
Elizabeth Siegel is Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has worked with increasing responsibilities since 1997. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Among her recent exhibitions are The Photographer’s Curator: Hugh Edwards at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959–1970; Alfred Stieglitz and the Nineteenth Century; Shatter Rupture Break, an exhibition bringing together modern art from across the Art Institute; Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door; Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks; and Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage. Besides catalogues accompanying several of those exhibitions, other books include Taken by Design: Photography at the Institute of Design, 1937–1971 and Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums. She has most recently produced in-depth digital catalogues on aspects of the Art Institute’s permanent collection of photography. Siegel has contributed writing and scholarship to numerous publications and actively participates as a panelist, lecturer, and reviewer; she also served for two years as the president of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Curatorial Forum.
Congratulations to Nora Burnett Abrams (CCL 2018) on her appointment to the Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver! Most recently the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning, Abrams has been at the MCA Denver since 2010. She has curated 0ver 30 exhibitions while at the museum, including Tara ... Read More >
Lauren Haynes (CCL 2018) has been named the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art! Since 2016, Lauren has served as the curator of contempoary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in addition to serving, since 2020, as the Director of ... Read More >
Twelve Curators Selected for 2018 Leadership Training Program The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) has selected twelve curators to participate in its annual fellowship program for 2018. The incoming class of Fellows will join the organization in New York City in January for an initial two weeks of instruction, followed ... Read More >
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 >
Highlights from the two-week January intensive of the Center for Curatorial Leadership annual leadership program This January, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) welcomed its eleventh class of Fellows for a two-week leadership intensive in New York City. A group of twelve curators from institutions across the United States convened ... Read More >