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.
2020 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
Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival
Emily Mann, longtime Artistic Director of The McCarter Theater, Princeton University
Christopher Merrill, Director of Creative Writing Program, University of Iowa
Emily Nemens, Editor of The Paris Review
Kiki Petrosino, Director of Creative Writing Program, University of Louisville
Robert Spano, Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Limor Tomer, General Manager, Live Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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:
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
Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg and Director, LCT Directors Lab, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Kenneth Fischer, retired President, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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
Franklin Sirmans, Director, Perez Museum of Art, Miami, FL
George Steele, at the time with the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY