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.
2021 CURATORIAL COUNCIL
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
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Claire Chase, Flutist, Avery Fisher Award Winner, MacArthur Fellow
Jennifer Clement, President, PEN International
Kimberly Drew, Writer, Activist, and Curator of Black Experiences
Nataki Garrett, Artistic Director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival
Mitchell Jackson, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Christopher Merrill, Director of Creative Writing Program, University of Iowa
Terrance McKnight, WNYC Radio Host
Emily Nemens, Former Editor of The Paris Review
Robert Spano, Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
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
Dan Cameron, Former Chief Curator of Orange County Museum of Art
Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg and Director, LCT Directors Lab, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Michael Bigelow Dixon, Assistant Professor of Theater, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
Kenneth Fischer, retired President, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Linda S. Golding, Founder/Director, The Reservoir
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Executive Director, Arizona State University Gammage, Tempe, AZ
Emily Mann, longtime Artistic Director of The McCarter Theater, Princeton University
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
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
George Steele, at the time with the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY
Limor Tomer, General Manager, Live Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art