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 »
Jill Sterrett is an independent arts and cultural heritage advisor, working currently on Toward Common Cause: Art Social Practice and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, a city-wide project opening in Chicago later this year. She was Interim Director and Deputy Director at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago from 2018-2020. She… Read more »
Chad Alligood is an independent curator and art historian of modern and contemporary American art. Previously, he served as Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art at The Huntington, overseeing the collection and exhibition of American art. Prior to that, as curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, he significantly expanded the diversity of the… Read more »
Inge-Lise Eckmann Lane (1950 – 2021), Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation and the International Institute for Conservation, served as Chief Conservator and Deputy Director at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art over more than twenty years supervising the exhibition, collection, conservation and education programs of the Museum. In addition to holding a… Read more »
Glenn Wharton is a Professor of Art History at UCLA and Chair of the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials. Prior to this appointment, he was on faculty in the Museum Studies Program at New York University where he researched and taught about conserving new forms of contemporary art and social justice programming… Read more »