Each year our National Curatorial Council of experts in their disciplines selects more than 70 artists for Hermitage residencies. Members of the Curatorial Council are connected to some of the most renowned American cultural institutions.
2018-19 CURATORIAL COUNCIL:
Emily Mann (Chair), Artistic Director, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
Darrell Ayers, retired Vice President for Education and Jazz, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; now in Sarasota, FL
Kenneth Fischer, retired President, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Emily Nemens, editor, The Paris Review, Paris, France
Josip Novakovich, Writer; Professor, Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Carey Perloff, retired Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Kiki Petrosino, Director, Creative Writing Program, University of Louisville, KY
Limor Tomer, General Manager, Live Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Franklin Sirmans, Director, Perez Museum of Art, Miami, FL
EMERITUS:
Dan Cameron, art curator
Michael Bigelow Dixon, Assistant Professor of Theater, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
Linda S. Golding, Founder/Director, The Reservoir
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Executive Director, Arizona State University Gammage, Tempe, AZ
Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York, NY
PRIOR MEMBERS:
Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg and Director, LCT Directors Lab, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Christopher Offutt, writer, formerly with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
George Steele, at the time with the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY