Marie Watt is an American artist whose work draws from history, biography, protofeminism, and Indigenous principles. She is concerned with the intersection of history, community and storytelling, and addresses how multi-generational and cross-disciplinary conversations create a lens for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe. Ms. Watt holds an MFA in Painting and… Read more »
Kelly McHugh is the Head of Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian. Prior she served as the Head of the Collections Care and Stewardship department and as an Objects Conservator in the NMAI Conservation department. She began working for the museum in 1996 at NMAI’s Research Branch facility in NY. Kelly focuses… Read more »
Daisy Nam is the director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, which opens their new galleries on the expanded campus in Fall of 2024. Previously, she was at Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space dedicated to supporting artists through residencies, commissions, and exhibitions, first as the curator in 2020 and then the… Read more »
Dr. Rosanna Flouty is Director of NYU’s Museum Studies program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Clinical Associate Professor. She holds over twenty-five years of museum experience, including at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Art21, BMW Guggenheim Lab and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She has also completed year-long… Read more »
Narayan Khandekar is the Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Melbourne and a Post-graduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings from the Courtauld Institute… Read more »
Andrea Hanley is the Vice President of Programs at the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation (NACF). She is dedicated to the work of contemporary Native American artists and the Native American fine art field. Hanley has over thirty years of experience in the field including National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,… Read more »
Jay Krueger received a BFA in Printmaking and a BA in Art History from Washington University in St Louis, and an MA with a certificate of advanced study in painting conservation from the State University of New York, Cooperstown Graduate Program. In 1992, Mr. Krueger was appointed senior conservator of modern paintings at the National Gallery of… Read more »
Richard Cándida Smith is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published seven books and over forty essays in publications from the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Britain. His work has explored arts and literary networks, movements, and institutions in the United States, with an emphasis… Read more »
Steven O’Banion is the Director of Conservation at Glenstone, responsible for comprehensively addressing the conservation needs of Glenstone’s collection. Steven graduated from Middlebury College with a major in Biochemistry and a minor in the History of Art and Architecture. After completing pre-program internships at the Museum of Modern Art, the New York City Department of… Read more »
Yasmeen Siddiqui is the founding director of Minerva Projects, an independent art press whose objective is to cultivate writing about the visual arts through an interdisciplinary and literary lens. In tandem with this work, Siddiqui lectures, writes, and edits; having her work published in artist and exhibition catalogues, as well as on Hyperallergic, and in ART… Read more »
Alison Gilchrest is the inaugural Director of Applied Research and Outreach at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH). In this role, she facilitates sustained research and training partnerships between IPCH and communities of practice, with an emphasis on collaborations outside of North America and Europe. Prior to arriving at Yale, Alison was… Read more »
Kate Lewis is the Agnes Gund Chief Conservator at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Previously she held the position of Media Conservator at MoMA, focusing on the conservation of audio, performance, software, video and film-based works, and from 2005-2013 acted as Time-based Media Conservator at Tate in London. Lewis holds an M.A. in the… Read more »