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AAMC CONFERENCE ATTENDEES (listed by last name)

A Rachel Adams, Associate Curator, UB Art Galleries Maggie Adler, Assistant Curator, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Prize Committee Member Katherine Alcauskas, Collections & Exhibitions Specialist, Ruth & Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College Hilton Als, staff writer & theater critic, The New Yorker; Keynote In-Conversation Lynne Ambrosini, Director of Collections & Exhibitions & Curator of European Art, Taft Museum of Art Leslie Anderson-Perkins, Curator of European, American & Regional Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Bill Arning, Director, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture & Drawings, Cincinnati Art Museum Elizabeth Athens, Assistant Curator of American Art, Worcester Art Museum Sharon Matt Atkins, Vice Director, Exhibitions & Collections Management, Brooklyn Museum; Marketing & Communications Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Helga Kessler Aurisch, Curator of European Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

B Austen Barron Bailly, The George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Curator, European & American Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Career Support Committee Co-Chair

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Rene Paul Barilleaux, Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art, McNay Art Museum; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member; Panelist: It's Complicated: The Curator- Patron Relationship Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator & Director of Programs & Collections, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator, Modern Art Department Head, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Susan Sayre Batton, Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, San Jose Museum of Art Daniel Belasco, Curator of Exhibitions & Programs, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz Greg Bell, Senior Curator, Vulcan Alejo Benedetti, Curatorial Assistant, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton Doris Berger, Curator, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Haley Berkman, Curatorial Assistant, The Menil Collection Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curtorial Affairs, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Moderator/ Organizer: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Mindy N. Besaw, Curator of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Denise Birkhofer, Ellen Johnson '33 Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Nancy J. Blomberg, Chief Curator & Curator of Native Arts, Denver Art Museum; Conference Committee Member Graham C. Boettcher, Deputy Director & The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art; Vice President, Finance, Board of Trustees; Finance & Audit Committee & Fundraising Initiatives Co-Chair; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy,Promoting Debate Abbey Chamberlain Brach, Exhibitions Associate, Decorative Arts & Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY; Guest Curator, Solomon R. Guggeneheim Museum Bridget Bray, Nancy C. Allen Curator & Director of Exhibitions, Asia Society Texas Center Bradley Brooks, Curator, Bayou Bend Collection & Gardens, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art Tobi Bruce, Director, Exhibitions & Collections, Art Gallery of Hamilton Renee Brummell Franklin, Director of Audience Development, Saint Louis Art Museum; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Amanda C. Burdan, Associate Curator, Brandywine River Museum of Art Laura Burkhalter, Curator, Des Moines Art Center Melissa Buron, Associate Curator, European Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Hiram Butler, Circle Donor Dinner Host, Hiram Butler Gallery Hannah Byers, Vice President, Museum Services, Sotheby's

C Lisa Cakmak, Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Saint Louis Art Museum Sue Canterbury, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art Edie Carpenter, Director, Curatorial & Artistic Programs, GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art Beatrice Chan, Curatorial Assistant, Asian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Christina Chang, Interim Director & Curator, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College; Conference Committee Member

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Jacqueline Chao, Curator of Asian Art, Crow Collection of Asian Art Yeonsoo Chee, Assistant Curator, USC Pacific Asia Museum Beth Citron, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, The Rubin Museum of Art; Professional Development Committee Member Christa Clarke, Senior Curator, Arts of Global Africa, Newark Museum; Vice President, Programming, Board of Trustees; Diversity Task Force Co-Leader; Career Support, Conference & Professional Development Committees EC Representative James Clifton, Director, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Anne Collins Smith, Curator of Collections, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Caitlin Condell, Assistant Curator, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Margi Conrads, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Diversity Task Force Member; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member Kelly Conway, Curator of American Glass, Corning Museum of Glass; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Rachel Cook, Curator, DiverseWorks Sylvain Cordier, Curator of Early Decorative Arts, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Alyssa Marie Cordova, Curatorial Associate, Orange County Museum of Art Josine Corstens, Curatorial Assistant, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Kristie Couser, Curatorial Assistant for the Mellon Collections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Dana E. Cowen, Associate Curator of European Art, Joslyn Art Museum

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Katelyn Crawford, Assistant Curator of American Art, The NelsonAtkins Museum of Art Deborah Cullen, Director & Chief Curator, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Diversity Task Force Member

D Chelsea Dacus, Assistant Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Dean Daderko, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Panelist: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions Jens Daehner, Associate Curator of Antiquities, The J. Paul Getty Museum Malcolm Daniel, Gus & Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Conference Committee Member Kimberly Davenport, Director & Chief Curator, Rice University Art Gallery Paul R. Davis, Curator of Collections, The Menil Collection; Panelist: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance Tacita Dean, Artist & Founder, savefilm.org; Panelist: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions Carrie Dedon, Curatorial Assistant, Modern & Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum Janet Dees, Curator, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Katie Delmez, Curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts Alison Demorotski, Curatorial Assistant, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Ryan Dennis, Public Art Director, Project Row Houses Lisa Dennison, Chairman, Sotheby's North & South America, Sotheby's Jaime DeSimone, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Lloyd DeWitt, Irene Leache Curator of European Art & Chief Curator, Chrysler Museum of Art

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Jane Dini, Associate Curator of Paintings & Sculpture, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Advocacy Task Force Member; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Lisa Dorin, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Contemporary Art, Williams College Museum of Art Linda Dougherty, Chief Curator & Curator of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art Owen Duffy, Exhibitions Manager, Virginia Commonwealth University Ginger Gregg Duggan, Partner/Curator, c2-curatorsquared Michael Duncan, Independent Curator Rebecca Dunham, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Erin Dunn, Middleton Curatorial Fellow, Telfair Museums Deborah Fullerton Dunn, Curator of Exhibitions, Art Museum of South Texas

E Susan Earle, Curator of European & American Art, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Elizabeth Easton, Director & Co-Founder, Center for Curatorial Leadership; Trustee Emerita, Past President Sabine Eckmann, Director & Chief Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Xandra Eden, Executive Director & Chief Curator, DiverseWorks; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Jackie Edwards, Curatorial Assistant, McNay Art Museum Claudia Einecke, Independent Curator/Metadata Specialist, Getty Research Insitute; Professional Development Committee Member Carol Eliel, Curator of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Trustee Emerita, Past President Clare Elliott, Assistant Curator, The Menil Collection Catherine Evans, Chief Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art Helen Evans, Mary & Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art & The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; President

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F Leesa Fanning, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Alan Fausel, Vice President/Director, Fine Arts & Museum Services, Bonhams Auctioneers Susan Faxon, Associate Director & Curator of Art Before 1950, Addison Gallery of American Art Dan Finamore, Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art, Peabody Essex Museum; Prize Committee Member Beth Finch, Lunder Curator of American Art, Colby College Museum of Art Sandra Firmin, Director & Chief Curator, CU Art Museum; Board of Trustees Tuliza Fleming, Curator & Art Historian, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture; Panelist: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance Kanitra Fletcher, Curator, Landmarks Video, Landmarks Public Art Program Misty Flores, Curatorial Assistant, Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Silvia Forni, Curator, Royal Ontario Museum; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Judith Hoos Fox, Curator, c2-curatorsquared; Advocacy Task Force Member Sandra Fraser, Curator (Collections), Remai Modern Sally Frater, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Ulrich Museum of Art Rita E. Freed, John F. Cogan & Mary L. Cornille Chair, Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Board of Trustees Aimee Froom, Curator, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Roundtable Discussion Leader Catherine L. Futter, Director, Curatorial Affairs, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader

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G Adriana Gallegos, Chief Curator, Museo Arocena; Membership Committee Member Kimberli Gant, Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Newark Museum; Diversity Task Force Member Christine Gervais, Associate Curator, Decorative Arts & Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Madhuvanti Ghose, Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan & Islamic Art, Art Institute of Chicago; Membership Committee Member Eureka Gilkey, Executive Director, Project Row Houses Rima Girnius, Associate Curator of European Painting & Sculpture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Tracee J. Glab, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Flint Institute of Arts; Professional Development Committee Member Allison Glenn, Independent Curator Maria Robinson Glover, Associate Director of Development Office of Strategic Advancement, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc); Panelist: It's Complicated: The CuratorPatron Relationship Hilliard Todd Goldfarb, Senior Curator, Collections, Curator of Old Masters, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Elyse A. Gonzales, Assistant Director/Curator of Exhibitions, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Senior Curator Emerita, The Jewish Museum Alison de Lima Greene, Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Board of Trustees; Conference Committee Co-Chair; Governance & Nominating Committee Member

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Diana Greenwold, Assistant Curator of American Art, Portland Museum of Art Elaine D. Gustafson, Curator of Collections, Weatherspoon Art Museum

H Paul Ha, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center; Panelist: It's Complicated: The Curator-Patron Relationship Sarah Hall, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Frick Art & Historical Center Evelyn C. Hankins, Curator, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden Emily G. Hanna, Senior Curator, Arts of Africa & the Americas, Birmingham Museum of Art Michelle Hargrave, Curator & China Initiative Project Director, American Federaton of Arts; Board of Trustees; Membership Committee Co-Chair Donna Harkavy, Independent Curator Holly Harrison, Program Associate, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Cody Hartley, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Panelist: It's Complicated: The Curator- Patron Relationship Caitlin Haskell, Assistant Curator of Painting & Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Amanda H. Hellman, Curator of African Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University Marissa Hershon, Curatorial Assistant, Decorative Arts, Craft, & Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Betti-Sue Hertz, Independent Curator Stephanie Heydt, Margaret & Terry Stent Curator of American Art, High Museum of Art Benjamin M. Hickey, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Masur Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Marketing & Communications Committee Co-Chair

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Erika Holmquist-Wall, Mary & Barry Bingham, Sr. Curator of European & American Painting & Sculpture, Speed Art Museum; Prize Committee Member Joachim Homann, Curator, Bowdoin College Museum of Art Lisa Hostetler, Curator in Charge, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum Jan Howard, Chief Curator, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Katherine Howe, Director, Rienzi & the Dora Maar House, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Rock Hushka, Chief Curator, Tacoma Art Museum; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate

I Heather Igloliorte, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Concordia University; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Frederick Ilchman, Chair of Art of Europe & Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Kerry Inman, Owner & Director, Inman Gallery Chiyo Ishikawa, Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art & Curator of European Painting & Sculpture, Seattle Art Museum; Membership Committee Co-Chair

J Michelle Jacques, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader James Jensen, Curator of Contemporary Art, Honolulu Museum of Art Barbara L. Jones, Chief Curator, Westmoreland Museum of American Art

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Frauke V. Josenhans, Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery Julie Joyce, Curator of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art

K Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection Brooke Kellaway, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Corey Keller, Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Maria L. Kelly, Curatorial Assistant of Photography & Exhibitions, High Museum of Art Allison Kemmerer, Mead Curator of Photography & Curator of Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery of American Art Trinita Kennedy, Curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Professional Development Committee Member Sarah Kennel, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum Sarah Kianovsky, Curator of the Collection, Division of Modern & Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums Joy Jeehye Kim, Assistant Curator of Photography, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Margery King, Curator, American Federation of Arts Norman Kleeblatt, Susan & Elihu Rose Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum Jennifer Klos, Independent Curator, Collector House Stephanie Fox Knappe, Samuel Sosland Curator, American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bonna Kol, Executive Director, Asia Society Texas Center; Welcome Address, Asia Soceity Texas Center Edouard Kopp, Maida & George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings, Harvard Art Museums Cory Korkow, Associate Curator of European Art, Cleveland Museum of Art

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L Jamilee Lacy, Director & Curator, Providence College - Galleries Marianne Lamonaca, Associate Curator & Chief Curator, Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Vice President, Communications, Board of Trustees; Membership Committee EC Representative Amy Lawch, Regional Representative, Bonhams Auctioneers Toby Katrine Lawrence, Independent Curator/Researcher Emilia Layden, Associate Curator, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University Benedict Leca, Executive Director, Redwood Library & Athenaeum Anne Leonard, Curator & Associate Director of Academic Initiatives, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; Moderator/Organizer: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance Vivian Y. Li, Assistant Curator, Asian Art, Worcester Art Museum Alexandra Libby, Assistant Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings, National Gallery of Art Mary-Kay Lombino, Emily Hargroves Fisher & Richard B. Fisher Curator & Assistant Director, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College; Career Support Committee Co-Chair; Presenter: Mentorship Program Announcement; Roundtable Discussion Leader Amber L. Lopez, Nancy Prophet Fellow, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Mia Lopez, Independent Curator Rick Lowe, Founding Director, Project Row Houses John P. Lukavic, Associate Curator of Native Arts, Denver Art Museum

M Heather MacDonald, Program Officer, Getty Foundation Mary Magsamen, Curator, Aurora Picture Show Catharina Manchanda, Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum

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Carol Manley, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Holocaust Museum Houston Crawford Alexander Mann III, Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Medieval Art & The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Conference Committee Co-Chair Michael Mansfield, Curator, Film & Media Art, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Panelist: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions Ed Marquand, Partner & Creative Director, Lucia|Marquand Earl Martin, Associate Curator, Bard Graduate Center Gallery Jessica May, Chief Curator, Portland Museum of Art Xerxes Mazda, Director of Collections, National Museums Scotland; Membership Committee Member Emily McKibbon, Associate Curator, MacLaren Art Centre Courtney McNeil, Chief Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Telfair Museums Christine Medina, Manager, Rice Gallery Jen Mergel, Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal, and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Board of Trustees; Professional Development Committee Co-Chair; Diversity Task Force Co-Leader; Moderator/Organizer: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator & Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Presenter: On the Value of Being a Mentor Olivier Meslay, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Dallas Museum of Art Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Moderator/Organizer: It's Complicated: The CuratorPatron Relationship Kelly Montana, Curatorial Assistant, Menil Drawing Institute, The Menil Collection

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Joanna Montoya Robotham, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Tampa Museum of Art; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Disussion Leader Sarah Montross, Associate Curator, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum Kelli Morgan, Doctoral Candidate, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Mary G. Morton, Curator & Head of Department, French Paintings, National Gallery of Art; Board of Trustees; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member Laura Mott, Curator of Contemporary Art & Design, Cranbrook Art Museum Diane Mullin, Curator, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Liz Munsell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Special Initiatives, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Erin K. Murphy, Assistant to the Chief Curator, San Antonio Museum of Art Mary Murray, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, MunsonWilliams-Proctor Museum of Art Denise M. Murrell, Postdoctoral Research Scholar & Curator, Posing Modernity Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University Nicole R. Myers, The Lillian & James H. Clark Curator of European Painting & Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art

N Emily Schuchardt Navratil, Associate Curator, Vilcek Foundation Andrea J. Nelson, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art Lawrence Nichols, William Hutton Senior Curator, European & American Painting & Sculpture before 1900, Toledo Museum of Art

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Samantha Niederman, Curatorial Assistant Education & American Art Departments, Norton Museum of Art Christina Nielsen, William & Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Chon A. Noriega, Professor & Adjunct Curator, University of California, Los Angeles & Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Collections, Toledo Museum of Art Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Curator, Hood Museum of Art

O Janet O'Brien, Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Lauren R. O'Connell, Curatorial Associate, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Monica Obniski, Demmer Curator of 20th & 21st Century Design, Milwaukee Art Museum; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Jennifer Komar Olivarez, Head of Exhibition Planning & Strategy & Interim Head of Decorative Arts, Textiles & Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Prize Committee Member Christopher Oliver, Assistant Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Roundtable Discussion Leader Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, Harn Museum of Art; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Nykia Omphroy, Executive Administrator, Office of the Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Carlos Ortega, Curator of Collections, Museum of Latin American Art; Presenter: Curatorial Slam

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P Marina Pacini, Chief Curator, Curator of American, Modern, & Contemporary Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Professional Development Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Regina Palm, Curatorial Assistant, Kimbell Art Museum Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European & American Art, Honolulu Museum of Art Allison Pappas, Assistant Curator, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Marisa J. Pascucci, Curator of Collections, Boca Raton Museum of Art; Professional Development Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Tanya Paul, Isabel & Alfred Bader Curator of European Art, Milwaukee Art Museum Jessica Phifer, Associate Vice President, Senior Account Manager Southwest Region, Christie's Valeria Piccoli, Chief Curator, Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil Julie N. Pierotti, Curator, Dixon Gallery & Gardens; Roundtable Discussion Leader Bailey Harberg Placzek, Assistant Curator & Collections Manager, Clyfford Still Museum Ron Platt, Chief Curator, Grand Rapids Art Museum Susan Power, Research Assistant American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Jennifer Casler Price, Curator for Asian & Non-Western Art, Kimbell Art Museum; Advocacy Task Force Co-Leader Carolyn Putney, Retired Chief Curator, Toledo Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Prize Committee Chair; Presenter: Awards for Excellence Richard H. Putney, Professor Emeritus of Art History & Consulting Curator of Medieval Art, Toledo Museum of Art

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R Mari Carmen RamĂ­rez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Shoshana Resnikoff, Assistant Curator for Exhibitions & Research, Peabody Essex Museum Stacy Bloom Rexrode, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Office of Raleigh Arts Thomas Rhoads, Interim Director, The Menil Collection; Welcome Address, The Menil Collection Michelle Rich, Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Paula B. Richter, Curator for Exhibitions & Research, Peabody Essex Museum; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Nina del Rio, Senior Vice President Head of Department Museum Services, Sotheby's Ellen E. Roberts, Harold & Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art, Norton Museum of Art; Career Support Committee Member Veronica Roberts, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin Klaudio Rodriguez, Curator, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum; Career Support Committee Member Dulce Maria Roman, Chief Curator & Curator of Modern Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Lauren Rosenblum, Curatorial Assistant, Prints & Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Lauren Ross, Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University; Career Support Committee Member Katy Rothkopf, Senior Curator & Department Head of European Painting & Sculpture, The Baltimore Museum of Art Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, New Orleans Museum of Art ValĂŠrie Rousseau, Curator, Self-Taught Art & Art Brut, American Folk Art Museum

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David S. Rubin, Independent Curator William Keyse Rudolph, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chief Curator & Marie & Hugh Halff Curator of American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art; Board of Trustees Blake J. Ruehrwein, Independent Curator Alma Ruiz, Senior Fellow, Latin American Specialist, Center for Management in the Creative Industries; Panelist: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions Althea Ruoppo, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art & Special Projects, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

S Annemarie Sawkins, Curator Jennifer Scanlan, Curatorial & Exhibitions Director, Oklahoma Contemporary; Professional Development Committee Co-Chair; Roundtable Discussion Leader Jan Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern Art, The NelsonAtkins Museum of Art Tamara H. Schenkenberg, Associate Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation Peter J. Schertz, Jack & Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member, Roundtable Discussion Leader N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director & Curator of Exhibitions, University of Richmond Museums Sarah Schleuning, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, High Museum of Art; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Claire Schneider, Director, CS1 Projects; Career Support Committee Member Alexandra Schwartz, Curator of Contemporary Art, Montclair Art Museum Johanna G. Seasonwein, Senior Curator of Western Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

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Rachel Seligman, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College Shelley Selim, Jeanne & Ralph Graham Assistant Curator, Cranbrook Art Museum Jon Seydl, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of European Art, Worcester Art Museum George T.M. Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimbell Art Museum; Trustee Emeritus, Past President; Advocacy Task Force Member; Governance & Nominating Committee Member Jill Shaw, Associate Curator of European Art (1850 - 1950), Detroit Institute of Arts Oliver Shell, Associate Curator, The Baltimore Museum of Art Blake Shell, The Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Director & Curator, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Brian Sholis, Curator of Photography, Cincinnati Art Museum Sandra Sider, Curator, Texas Quilt Museum Haema Sivanesan, Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Governance & Nominating Committee Member Allison Slaby, Curator, Reynolda House Museum of American Art Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Board of Trustees; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Co-Chair Jerry N. Smith, Hazel & William Hough Chief Curator & Interim Director, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Will South, Chief Curator, Columbia Museum of Art Andrew Spindler-Roesle, Circle Donor Dinner Host Nicole Stanbridge, Curator of Engagement, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Sarah Stauder, Executive Director, Aurora Picture Show

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Auntaneshia Staveloz, Supervisory Program Manager, Office of Community & Constituent Services, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History & Culture and Vice President at Association of African American Museums; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Staci Steinberger, Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts & Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Conference Committee Member Grace Stewart, Collections & Exhibitions Manager, Metal Museum Shannon R. Stratton, William & Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator, Museum of Arts & Design Cindi Strauss, Sara & Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, & Design, Assistant Director, Programming, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Roundtable Discussion Leader Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Head of the Department of European Art, Elizabeth & Allan Shelden Curator of European Paintings, Detroit Institute of Arts Jonathan Stuhlman, Senior Curator of American, Modern, & Contemporary Art, The Mint Museum Jennifer Sudul Edwards, Curator, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Victoria Surliuga, Associate Professor of Italian, Texas Tech University

T Martha Tedeschi, Deputy Director for Art & Research, Art Institute of Chicago; Board of Trustees; Governance & Nominating Committee Co-Chair Adam Thomas, Curator of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art Kelley Tialiou, Charles H. Sawyer Curatorial Assistant, Librarian, Archivist, Addison Gallery of American Art; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Gary Tinterow, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Welcome Address, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Trustee Emeritus, Past President

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Ben Tippin, Assistant Curator, Torrance Art Museum Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art, Wadsworth Atheneum; Panelist: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance Elizabeth Turner, University Professor, Adjunct Curator, Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

U Georgiana Uhlyarik, Associate Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario; Vice President, Governance, Board of Trustees; Advocacy Task Force Member; Membership Committee Member Allison Unruh, Associate Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Leslie Ure単a, Assistant Curator of Photographs, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

V Julia L. Valiela, Andrew W. Mellon & Maude de Schauensee Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art Sarah Van Anden, Senior Program Manager, Center for Curatorial Leadership Kristina Van Dyke, Independent Curator Katherine Veneman, Curator of Education, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston Megan Voeller, Associate Curator & Program Director, Art in Health, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum; Presenter: Curatorial Slam

W Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation; Keynote In-Conversation Roger Ward, Deputy Director & Chief Curator, Mississippi Museum of Art April M. Watson, Curator, Photography, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Kaylin Weber, Assistant Curator, American Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Michael Wellen, Assistant Curator of Latin American & Latino Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Moderator/Organizer: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions Ashlee Whitaker, Curator of Religious Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Michelle White, Curator, The Menil Collection; Conference Committee Member Allison Whiting, Senior Vice President, Director of Museum Services, Christie's Catherine Whitney, Chief Curator, Curator of American Art, Philbrook Museum of Art; Career Support Committee Member Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Museum Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture; Diversity Task Force Member; Membership Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Elizabeth A. Williams, Curator, David & Peggy Rockefeller Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Career Support Committee Member Christy Williams, Assistant Vice President, Museum Services, Sotheby's Gloria Williams Sander, Curator, Norton Simon Museum M. Melissa Wolfe, Curator of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum Dena M. Woodall, Associate Curator, Prints & Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Y Ann Yonemura, Curator of Japanese Art, Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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AAMC CONFERENCE ATTENDEES (listed by primary field of focus)

19TH CENTURY ART Lynne Ambrosini, Director of Collections & Exhibitions & Curator of European Art, Taft Museum of Art Leslie Anderson-Perkins, Curator of European, American & Regional Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Helga Kessler Aurisch, Curator of European Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Kristie Couser, Curatorial Assistant for the Mellon Collections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Elizabeth Easton, Director & Co-Founder, Center for Curatorial Leadership; Trustee Emerita, Past President Claudia Einecke, Independent Curator/Metadata Specialist, Getty Research Insitute; Professional Development Committee Member Tracee J. Glab, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Flint Institute of Arts; Professional Development Committee Member Sarah Hall, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Frick Art & Historical Center Cory Korkow, Associate Curator of European Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Anne Leonard, Curator & Associate Director of Academic Initiatives, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; Moderator/Organizer: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance Nicole R. Myers, The Lillian & James H. Clark Curator of European Painting & Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art Regina Palm, Curatorial Assistant, Kimbell Art Museum Julie N. Pierotti, Curator, Dixon Gallery & Gardens; Roundtable Discussion Leader George T.M. Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimbell Art Museum; Trustee Emeritus, Past President; Advocacy Task Force Member; Governance & Nominating Committee Member

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Gary Tinterow, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Welcome Address, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Past President, Board of Trustees Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art, Wadsworth Atheneum; Panelist: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance

AFRICAN ART, CONTEMPORARY Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curtorial Affairs, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Moderator/ Organizer: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Christa Clarke, Senior Curator, Arts of Global Africa, Newark Museum; Vice President, Programming, Board of Trustees; Diversity Task Force Co-Leader; Career Support, Conference & Professional Development Committees EC Representative Paul R. Davis, Curator of Collections, The Menil Collection; Panelist: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Curator, Hood Museum of Art

AFRICAN ART, NON-CONTEMPORARY Silvia Forni, Curator, Royal Ontario Museum; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Emily G. Hanna, Senior Curator, Arts of Africa & the Americas, Birmingham Museum of Art Amanda H. Hellman, Curator of African Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University Kristina Van Dyke, Independent Curator

AMERICAN ART, PRE 1950 Maggie Adler, Assistant Curator, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture & Drawings, Cincinnati Art Museum

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Elizabeth Athens, Assistant Curator of American Art, Worcester Art Museum Mindy N. Besaw, Curator of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Graham C. Boettcher, Deputy Director & The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art; Vice President, Finance, Board of Trustees; Finance & Audit Committee & Fundraising Initiatives Co-Chair; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Amanda C. Burdan, Associate Curator, Brandywine River Museum of Art Sue Canterbury, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art Susan Faxon, Associate Director & Curator of Art Before 1950, Addison Gallery of American Art Tuliza Fleming, Curator & Art Historian, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture; Panelist: When All Art is Contemporary: The Institutional Push for Relevance Deborah Fullerton Dunn, Curator of Exhibitions, Art Museum of South Texas Diana Greenwold, Assistant Curator of American Art, Portland Museum of Art Barbara L. Jones, Chief Curator, Westmoreland Museum of American Art Crawford Alexander Mann III, Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art Courtney McNeil, Chief Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Telfair Museums Christopher Oliver, Assistant Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Ellen E. Roberts, Harold & Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art, Norton Museum of Art; Career Support Committee Member Allison Slaby, Curator, Reynolda House Museum of American Art Will South, Chief Curator, Columbia Museum of Art

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Auntaneshia Staveloz, Supervisory Program Manager, Office of Community & Constituent Services, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History & Culture and Vice President at Association of African American Museums; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/ Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Catherine Whitney, Chief Curator, Curator of American Art, Philbrook Museum of Art; Career Support Committee Member Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

AMERICAN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE Austen Barron Bailly, The George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art Margi Conrads, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Diversity Task Force Member; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member Katelyn Crawford, Assistant Curator of American Art, The NelsonAtkins Museum of Art Jane Dini, Associate Curator of Paintings & Sculpture, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Advocacy Task Force Member; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Dan Finamore, Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art, Peabody Essex Museum; Prize Committee Member Beth Finch, Lunder Curator of American Art, Colby College Museum of Art Stephanie Fox Knappe, Samuel Sosland Curator, American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Allison Glenn, Independent Curator Stephanie Heydt, Margaret & Terry Stent Curator of American Art, High Museum of Art Olivier Meslay, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Dallas Museum of Art

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Marisa J. Pascucci, Curator of Collections, Boca Raton Museum of Art; Professional Development Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Bailey Harberg Placzek, Assistant Curator & Collections Manager, Clyfford Still Museum William Keyse Rudolph, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chief Curator & Marie & Hugh Halff Curator of American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art; Board of Trustees Jerry N. Smith, Hazel & William Hough Chief Curator & Interim Director, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Jonathan Stuhlman, Senior Curator of American, Modern, & Contemporary Art, The Mint Museum Adam Thomas, Curator of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art Kaylin Weber, Assistant Curator, American Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston M. Melissa Wolfe, Curator of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN Monica Obniski, Demmer Curator of 20th & 21st Century Design, Milwaukee Art Museum; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Sarah Schleuning, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, High Museum of Art; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Shelley Selim, Jeanne & Ralph Graham Assistant Curator, Cranbrook Art Museum Staci Steinberger, Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts & Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Conference Committee Member

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Cindi Strauss, Sara & Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, & Design, Assistant Director, Programming, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Roundtable Discussion Leader Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Museum Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture; Diversity Task Force Member; Membership Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader

ARTIST Tacita Dean, Artist & Founder, savefilm.org; Panelist: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions

ASIAN ART, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY, INCLUDING JAPANESE, CHINESE & SOUTHEAST ASIAN Bridget Bray, Nancy C. Allen Curator & Director of Exhibitions, Asia Society Texas Center Beatrice Chan, Curatorial Assistant, Asian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jacqueline Chao, Curator of Asian Art, Crow Collection of Asian Art Yeonsoo Chee, Assistant Curator, USC Pacific Asia Museum Madhuvanti Ghose, Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan & Islamic Art, The Art Institute of Chicago; Membership Committee Member Vivian Y. Li, Assistant Curator, Asian Art, Worcester Art Museum Jennifer Casler Price, Curator for Asian & Non-Western Art, Kimbell Art Museum; Advocacy Task Force Co-Leader Carolyn Putney, Retired Chief Curator, Toledo Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Prize Committee Chair; Presenter: Awards for Excellence Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, New Orleans Museum of Art Ann Yonemura, Curator of Japanese Art, Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution

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CANADIAN ART Tobi Bruce, Director, Exhibitions & Collections, Art Gallery of Hamilton Sandra Fraser, Curator (Collections), Remai Modern Michelle Jacques, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Georgiana Uhlyarik, Associate Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario; Vice President, Governance, Board of Trustees; Advocacy Task Force Member; Membership Committee Member

CONTEMPORARY ART Rachel Adams, Associate Curator, UB Art Galleries Katherine Alcauskas, Collections & Exhibitions Specialist, Ruth & Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College Sharon Matt Atkins, Vice Director, Exhibitions & Collections Management, Brooklyn Museum; Marketing & Communications Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Rene Paul Barilleaux, Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art, McNay Art Museum; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member; Panelist: It's Complicated: The Curator- Patron Relationship Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator & Director of Programs & Collections, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Daniel Belasco, Curator of Exhibitions & Programs, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz Greg Bell, Senior Curator, Vulcan Alejo Benedetti, Curatorial Assistant, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton Haley Berkman, Curatorial Assistant, The Menil Collection Denise Birkhofer, Ellen Johnson '33 Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

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Edie Carpenter, Director, Curatorial & Artistic Programs, GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Roundtable Discussion Leader Beth Citron, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, The Rubin Museum of Art; Professional Development Committee Member Rachel Cook, Curator, DiverseWorks Alyssa Marie Cordova, Curatorial Associate, Orange County Museum of Art Dean Daderko, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Panelist: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions Kimberly Davenport, Director & Chief Curator, Rice University Art Gallery Carrie Dedon, Curatorial Assistant, Modern & Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum Janet Dees, Curator, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Katie Delmez, Curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts Alison Demorotski, Curatorial Assistant, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Jaime DeSimone, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Lisa Dorin, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Contemporary Art, Williams College Museum of Art Linda Dougherty, Chief Curator & Curator of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art Owen Duffy, Exhibitions Manager, Virginia Commonwealth University Ginger Gregg Duggan, Partner/Curator, c2-curatorsquared Erin Dunn, Middleton Curatorial Fellow, Telfair Museums Xandra Eden, Executive Director & Chief Curator, DiverseWorks; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Leesa Fanning, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Sandra Firmin, Director & Chief Curator, CU Art Museum; Board of Trustees Donna Harkavy, Independent Curator Judith Hoos Fox, Curator, c2-curatorsquared; Advocacy Task Force Member Sally Frater, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Ulrich Museum of Art Kimberli Gant, Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Newark Museum; Diversity Task Force Member Elyse A. Gonzales, Assistant Director/Curator of Exhibitions, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara Evelyn C. Hankins, Curator, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden Betti-Sue Hertz, Independent Curator Benjamin M. Hickey, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Masur Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Marketing & Communications Committee Co-Chair Rock Hushka, Chief Curator, Tacoma Art Museum; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate James Jensen, Curator of Contemporary Art, Honolulu Museum of Art Julie Joyce, Curator of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection Brooke Kellaway, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Allison Kemmerer, Mead Curator of Photography & Curator of Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery of American Art Joy Jeehye Kim, Assistant Curator of Photography, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Margery King, Curator, American Federation of Arts Jennifer Klos, Independent Curator, Collector House Jamilee Lacy, Director & Curator, Providence College - Galleries Toby Katrine Lawrence, Independent Curator/Researcher

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Amber L. Lopez, Nancy Prophet Fellow, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Mia Lopez, Independent Curator Catharina Manchanda, Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum Jessica May, Chief Curator, Portland Museum of Art Jen Mergel, Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal, & Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Board of Trustees; Professional Development Committee Co-Chair; Diversity Task Force Co-Leader; Moderator/Organizer: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Moderator/Organizer: It's Complicated: The CuratorPatron Relationship Joanna Montoya Robotham, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Tampa Museum of Art; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Disussion Leader Sarah Montross, Associate Curator, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum Laura Mott, Curator of Contemporary Art & Design, Cranbrook Art Museum Liz Munsell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Special Initiatives, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Erin K. Murphy, Assistant to the Chief Curator, San Antonio Museum of Art Mary Murray, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, MunsonWilliams-Proctor Museum of Art Chon A. Noriega, Professor & Adjunct Curator, University of California, Los Angeles & Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Collections, Toledo Museum of Art

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Lauren R. O'Connell, Curatorial Associate, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, Harn Museum of Art; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Marina Pacini, Chief Curator, Curator of American, Modern, & Contemporary Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Professional Development Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Ron Platt, Chief Curator, Grand Rapids Art Museum Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Shoshana Resnikoff, Assistant Curator for Exhibitions & Research, Peabody Essex Museum Stacy Bloom Rexrode, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Office of Raleigh Arts Veronica Roberts, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin Lauren Ross, Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University; Career Support Committee Member Valรกrie Rousseau, Curator, Self-Taught Art & Art Brut, American Folk Art Museum David S. Rubin, Independent Curator Blake J. Ruehrwein, Independent Curator Althea Ruoppo, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art & Special Projects, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jennifer Scanlan, Curatorial & Exhibitions Director, Oklahoma Contemporary; Professional Development Committee Co-Chair; Roundtable Discussion Leader N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director & Curator of Exhibitions, University of Richmond Museums Claire Schneider, Director, CS1 Projects; Career Support Committee Member Rachel Seligman, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College

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Blake Shell, The Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Director & Curator, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Sandra Sider, Curator, Texas Quilt Museum Haema Sivanesan, Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Governance & Nominating Committee Member Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Board of Trustees; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Co-Chair Anne Collins Smith, Curator of Collections, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Nicole Stanbridge, Curator of Engagement, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Jennifer Sudul Edwards, Curator, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Victoria Surliuga, Associate Professor of Italian, Texas Tech University Kelley Tialiou, Charles H. Sawyer Curatorial Assistant, Librarian, Archivist, Addison Gallery of American Art; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Allison Unruh, Associate Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Megan Voeller, Associate Curator & Program Director, Art in Health, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Michael Wellen, Assistant Curator of Latin American & Latino Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Moderator/Organizer: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions Michelle White, Curator, The Menil Collection; Conference Committee Member

COSTUMES & TEXTILES Paula B. Richter, Curator for Exhibitions & Research, Peabody Essex Museum; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader

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CRAFT Grace Stewart, Collections & Exhibitions Manager, Metal Museum

DECORATIVE ARTS: AMERICAN & EUROPEAN Abbey Chamberlain Brach, Exhibitions Associate, Decorative Arts & Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bradley Brooks, Curator, Bayou Bend Collection & Gardens, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Kelly Conway, Curator of American Glass, Corning Museum of Glass; Marketing & Communications Committee Member Sylvain Cordier, Curator of Early Decorative Arts, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Misty Flores, Curatorial Assistant, Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Catherine L. Futter, Director, Curatorial Affairs, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Board of Trustees; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Adriana Gallegos, Chief Curator, Museo Arocena; Membership Committee Member Christine Gervais, Associate Curator, Decorative Arts & Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Marissa Hershon, Curatorial Assistant, Decorative Arts, Craft, & Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Katherine Howe, Director, Rienzi & the Dora Maar House, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Michelle Hargrave, Curator & China Initiative Project Director, American Federaton of Arts; Board of Trustees; Membership Committee Co-Chair Marianne Lamonaca, Associate Curator & Chief Curator, Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Vice President, Communications, Board of Trustees; Membership Committee EC Representative Earl Martin, Associate Curator, Bard Graduate Center Gallery Jennifer Komar Olivarez, Head of Exhibition Planning & Strategy & Interim Head of Decorative Arts, Textiles & Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Prize Committee Member

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Annemarie Sawkins, Curator Shannon R. Stratton, William & Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator, Museum of Arts & Design Elizabeth A. Williams, Curator, David & Peggy Rockefeller Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Career Support Committee Member

EUROPEAN PAINTING & SCULPTURE 15TH C - 18TH C Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Curator, European & American Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Career Support Committee Co-Chair Melissa Buron, Associate Curator, European Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader James Clifton, Director, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Josine Corstens, Curatorial Assistant, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Dana E. Cowen, Associate Curator of European Art, Joslyn Art Museum Lloyd DeWitt, Irene Leache Curator of European Art & Chief Curator, Chrysler Museum of Art Rima Girnius, Associate Curator of European Painting & Sculpture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Hilliard Todd Goldfarb, Senior Curator, Collections, Curator of Old Masters, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Conference Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader Erika Holmquist-Wall, Mary & Barry Bingham, Sr. Curator of European & American Painting & Sculpture, Speed Art Museum; Prize Committee Member Frederick Ilchman, Chair of Art of Europe & Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Chiyo Ishikawa, Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art & Curator of European Painting & Sculpture, Seattle Art Museum; Membership Committee Co-Chair

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Trinita Kennedy, Curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Professional Development Committee Member Alexandra Libby, Assistant Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings, National Gallery of Art Heather MacDonald, Program Officer, Getty Foundation Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator & Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Presenter: On the Value of Being a Mentor Mary G. Morton, Curator & Head of Department, French Paintings, National Gallery of Art; Board of Trustees; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member Lawrence Nichols, William Hutton Senior Curator, European & American Painting & Sculpture before 1900, Toledo Museum of Art Tanya Paul, Isabel & Alfred Bader Curator of European Art, Milwaukee Art Museum Johanna G. Seasonwein, Senior Curator of Western Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Jon Seydl, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of European Art, Worcester Art Museum Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Head of the Department of European Art, Elizabeth & Allan Shelden Curator of European Paintings, Detroit Institute of Arts Julia L. Valiela, Andrew W. Mellon & Maude de Schauensee Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art Ashlee Whitaker, Curator of Religious Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art; Marketing & Communications Committee Member

FILM, MULTIMEDIA, & NEW MEDIA Doris Berger, Curator, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Mary Magsamen, Curator, Aurora Picture Show Michael Mansfield, Curator, Film & Media Art, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Panelist: Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions

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Sarah Stauder, Executive Director, Aurora Picture Show Ben Tippin, Assistant Curator, Torrance Art Museum Kanitra Fletcher, Curator, Landmarks Video, Landmarks Public Art Program

GREEK & ROMAN & EGYPTIAN ART Lisa Cakmak, Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Saint Louis Art Museum Chelsea Dacus, Assistant Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jens Daehner, Associate Curator of Antiquities, The J. Paul Getty Museum Rita E. Freed, John F. Cogan & Mary L. Cornille Chair, Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Board of Trustees Peter J. Schertz, Jack & Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Finance & Audit Committee and Fundraising Initiatives Member, Roundtable Discussion Leader Christina Nielsen, William & Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Career Support Committee Member; Roundtable Discussion Leader

ISLAMIC ART Aimee Froom, Curator, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Roundtable Discussion Leader Janet O'Brien, Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

LATIN AMERICAN ART Deborah Cullen, Director & Chief Curator, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Diversity Task Force Member Carlos Ortega, Curator of Collections, Museum of Latin American Art; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Valeria Piccoli, Chief Curator, Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil Mari Carmen RamĂ­rez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Klaudio Rodriguez, Curator, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum; Career Support Committee Member Alma Ruiz, Senior Fellow, Latin American Specialist, Center for Management in the Creative Industries; Lights in the Dark: Innovative Strategies for Film & Video Exhibitions

MEDIEVAL ART Helen Evans, Mary & Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art & The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; President C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Medieval Art & The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Conference Committee Co-Chair Xerxes Mazda, Director of Collections, National Museums Scotland; Membership Committee Member Richard H. Putney, Professor Emeritus of Art History & Consulting Curator of Medieval Art, Toledo Museum of Art

MODERN ART Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Prize Committee Member Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator, Modern Art Department Head, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY; Guest Curator, Solomon R. Guggeneheim Museum Laura Burkhalter, Curator, Des Moines Art Center Christina Chang, Interim Director & Curator, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College; Conference Committee Member Michael Duncan, Independent Curator Susan Earle, Curator of European & American Art, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Sabine Eckmann, Director & Chief Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Jackie Edwards, Jackie Edwards, McNay Art Museum

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Carol Eliel, Curator of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Trustee Emerita, Past President Clare Elliott, Assistant Curator, The Menil Collection Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Senior Curator Emerita, The Jewish Museum Alison de Lima Greene, Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Board of Trustees; Conference Committee Co-Chair; Conference Committee Member; Governance & Nominating Committee Member Elaine D. Gustafson, Curator of Collections, Weatherspoon Art Museum Cody Hartley, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Panelist: It's Complicated: The Curator- Patron Relationship Caitlin Haskell, Assistant Curator of Painting & Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Presenter: Curatorial Slam Frauke V. Josenhans, Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery Sarah Kianovsky, Curator of the Collection, Division of Modern & Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums Norman Kleeblatt, Susan & Elihu Rose Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum Emilia Layden, Associate Curator, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University Benedict Leca, Executive Director, Redwood Library & Athenaeum Diane Mullin, Curator, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Denise M. Murrell, Postdoctoral Research Scholar & Curator, Posing Modernity Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University Emily Schuchardt Navratil, Associate Curator, Vilcek Foundation Samantha Niederman, Curatorial Assistant Education & American Art Departments, Norton Museum of Art Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European & American Art, Honolulu Museum of Art

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Susan Power, Research Assistant American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dulce Maria Roman, Chief Curator & Curator of Modern Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Katy Rothkopf, Senior Curator & Department Head of European Painting & Sculpture, The Baltimore Museum of Art Jan Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern Art, The NelsonAtkins Museum of Art Tamara H. Schenkenberg, Associate Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation Alexandra Schwartz, Curator of Contemporary Art, Montclair Art Museum Jill Shaw, Associate Curator of European Art (1850 - 1950), Detroit Institute of Arts Oliver Shell, Associate Curator, The Baltimore Museum of Art Elizabeth Turner, University Professor, Adjunct Curator, Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

OCEANIC & INDIGENOUS Nancy J. Blomberg, Chief Curator & Curator of Native Arts, Denver Art Museum; Conference Committee Member John P. Lukavic, Associate Curator of Native Arts, Denver Art Museum Michelle Rich, Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

PHOTOGRAPHY Malcolm Daniel, Gus & Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Conference Committee Member Catherine Evans, Chief Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art Lisa Hostetler, Curator in Charge, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum Corey Keller, Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Maria L. Kelly, Curatorial Assistant of Photography & Exhibitions, High Museum of Art Sarah Kennel, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum Mary-Kay Lombino, Emily Hargroves Fisher & Richard B. Fisher Curator & Assistant Director, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College; Career Support Committee Co-Chair; Presenter: Mentorship Program Announcement; Roundtable Discussion Leader Emily McKibbon, Associate Curator, MacLaren Art Centre Andrea J. Nelson, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art Allison Pappas, Assistant Curator, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brian Sholis, Curator of Photography, Cincinnati Art Museum Leslie Ure単a, Assistant Curator of Photographs, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery April M. Watson, Curator, Photography, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

PRINTS, DRAWINGS & WORKS ON PAPER Caitlin Condell, Assistant Curator, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Rebecca Dunham, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Joachim Homann, Curator, Bowdoin College Museum of Art Jan Howard, Chief Curator, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Edouard Kopp, Maida & George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings, Harvard Art Museums Carol Manley, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Holocaust Museum Houston Kelly Montana, Curatorial Assistant, Menil Drawing Institute, The Menil Collection Lauren Rosenblum, Curatorial Assistant, Prints & Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Martha Tedeschi, Deputy Director for Art & Research, Art Institute of Chicago; Board of Trustees; Governance & Nominating Committee Co-Chair Roger Ward, Deputy Director & Chief Curator, Mississippi Museum of Art Gloria Williams Sander, Curator, Norton Simon Museum Dena M. Woodall, Associate Curator, Prints & Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

GUESTS Hilton Als, staff writer & theater critic, The New Yorker; Keynote In-Conversation Bill Arning, Director, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Hiram Butler, Circle Donor Dinner Host, Hiram Butler Gallery Hannah Byers, Vice President, Museum Services, Sotheby's Lisa Dennison, Chairman, Sotheby's North & South America, Sotheby's Alan Fausel, Vice President/Director, Fine Arts & Museum Services, Bonhams Auctioneers Renee Brummell Franklin, Director of Audience Development, Saint Louis Art Museum; Panelist: Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change Eureka Gilkey, Executive Director, Project Row Houses Maria Robinson Glover, Associate Director of Development Office of Strategic Advancement, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc); Panelist: It's Complicated: The CuratorPatron Relationship Paul Ha, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center; Panelist: It's Complicated: The Curator-Patron Relationship Holly Harrison, Program Associate, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Heather Igloliorte, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Concordia University; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate

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Kerry Inman, Owner & Director, Inman Gallery Bonna Kol, Executive Director, Asia Society Texas Center; Welcome Address, Asia Soceity Texas Center Amy Lawch, Regional Representative, Bonhams Auctioneers Rick Lowe, Founding Director, Project Row Houses Ed Marquand, Partner & Creative Director, Lucia|Marquand Christine Medina, Manager, Rice Gallery Kelli Morgan, Doctoral Candidate, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Panelist: Exhibiting Controversy, Promoting Debate Nykia Omphroy, Executive Administrator, Office of the Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jessica Phifer, Associate Vice President, Senior Account Manager Southwest Region, Christie's Thomas Rhoads, Interim Director, The Menil Collection; Welcome Address, The Menil Collection Nina del Rio, Senior Vice President Head of Department Museum Services, Sotheby's Andrew Spindler-Roesle, Circle Donor Dinner Host Sarah Van Anden, Senior Program Manager, Center for Curatorial Leadership Katherine Veneman, Curator of Education, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation; Keynote In-Conversation Allison Whiting, Senior Vice President, Director of Museum Services, Christie's Christy Williams, Assistant Vice President, Museum Services, Sotheby's

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