Each year our National Curatorial Council of experts in their disciplines selects more than 90 artists for Hermitage residencies. Members of the Curatorial Council are connected to some of the most renowned American cultural institutions.
2026-2027 CURATORIAL COUNCIL
Ian Alteveer, Chair of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Courtney J. Boddie, VP, Education & School Engagement, New Victory/New 42
Will Butler, Grammy Award-Winning & Academy Award-Nominated Composer
Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum
Lauren Groff, New York Times Bestselling Author & Time “100 Most Influential People”
Cathy Park Hong, Pulitzer Prize Finalist & Time “100 Most Influential People”
Rajiv Joseph, Obie Award-Winning Playwright & Screenwriter 
Christine Kuan, President & Executive Director, Creative Capital
Tina LaPadula, Founder of Arts Corps & Arts Ed Manager, City of Seattle 
Lynn Nottage, Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright
Shara Nova, Grammy Award-Nominated Recording Artist and Performer
Bill Rauch, Tony Award-Winning Artistic Director of Perelman Performing Arts Center
Mark Ronson, Academy Award & Grammy Award-Winning Songwriter & Producer
Justin Torres, Acclaimed Author & National Book Award Winner
Du Yun, Pulitzer Prize-Winning & Grammy Award-Nominated Composer 
EMERITUS:
Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York, NY
PAST CURATORS:
Darrell Ayers, retired Vice President for Education and Jazz, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; now in Sarasota, FL
Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Sanford Biggers, Guggenheim Fellow, Hermitage Greenfield Prize Winner
Eric Booth, Arts Education Author and Speaker
Christopher Burney, Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film
Daniel Byers, Director at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Dan Cameron, Former Chief Curator of Orange County Museum of Art
Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg and Director, LCT Directors Lab, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Claire Chase, Flutist, Avery Fisher Award Winner, MacArthur Fellow
Jennifer Clement, President, PEN International
Michael Bigelow Dixon, Assistant Professor of Theater, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
Kimberly Drew, Independent Curator and Art Influencer
Kenneth Fischer, retired President, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Nataki Garrett, Co-Artistic Director of One Nation/One Project; Doris Duke Award-Winning Artistic Director
Linda S. Golding, Founder/Director, The Reservoir
Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Executive Director, Arizona State University Gammage, Tempe, AZ
Emily Mann, longtime Artistic Director of The McCarter Theater, Princeton University
Christopher Merrill, Director of Creative Writing Program, University of Iowa
Mitchell Jackson, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Terrance McKnight, WNYC Radio Host
Emily Nemens, Former Editor of The Paris Review
Josip Novakovich, Writer; Professor, Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Christopher Offutt, writer, formerly with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Carey Perloff, retired Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Kiki Petrosino, Director of Creative Writing Program, University of Louisville
Franklin Sirmans, Director, Perez Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Robert Spano, Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
George Steel, at the time with the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY
Limor Tomer, General Manager, Live Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art