Melanie Holcomb

Melanie Holcomb is a curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since joining the Met in 1999, she has contributed to multiple exhibitions as well as to the reinstallation of the Medieval and Byzantine Galleries. She was curator of the groundbreaking exhibition Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages in 2009 and co-curator of the 2011-13 exhibition series, Medieval Jewish Art in Context. Her present research is focused on the art and history of the Holy Land as she and a colleague prepare an exhibition devoted to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages, scheduled for 2016 at the Metropolitan. An alumna of Smith College (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.A., Ph.D.), she has taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the Institute of Fine Arts, and the University of Sussex. She was also a visiting Museum Scholar at the Getty Research Institute.

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2013-11-07

CCL Announces 2014 Fellows

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) named its 2014 class of Fellows, recognizing twelve art museum curators with a track record of exceptional work and the potential for even more significant contributions as future leaders in the field. This is the seventh class of CCL Fellows and the largest to date with individuals ... Read More >

2016-10-11

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2018-04-30

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 >

2020-01-02

Catherine Futter (CCL 2014) Named Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Brooklyn Museum

Catherine Futter (CCL 2014) has been named Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Brooklyn Museum. Futter joins the Brooklyn Museum from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art where she has been a member of the curatorial staff since 2002, first as the Helen Jane and R. Hugh “Pat” Uhlmann Curator ... Read More >

2020-08-25

Zoë Ryan (CCL 2014) named Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania

Zoë Ryan (CCL 2014) has been named Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.  Zoë will join the ICA in November following 14 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, most recently serving as the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design. A curator ... Read More >