List of Williams College People - Curators and Museum Directors

Curators and Museum Directors

Many were trained and deeply inspired by Whitney S. Stoddard and S. Lane Faison, who headed the art history department at Williams from 1940 to 1969.

• Brent Benjamin, 1986, Director St. Louis Art Museum.
• Robert Buck, 1961, Director, Brooklyn Museum.
• John W. Coffey, 1978, Deputy Director, North Carolina Museum of Art.
• Michael Govan, 1985, Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• Laura Steward Heon 1998, Director SITE Santa Fe.
• Laura Hoptman 1983, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art.
• Thomas Krens 1969, Director Guggenheim Museums Worldwide.
• John R. Lane 1966, Director Dallas Museum of Art.
• Glenn D. Lowry 1976, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
• Roger Mandle 1963, Executive Director of Qatar Museums Authority, formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art and President, RISD.
• C. Griffith Mann 1991, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Cleveland Museum of Art.
• Lisa Melandri 1997 (M.A.), Director, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
• Shamim M. Momin 1995, head of Los Angeles Nomadic Division and Adjunct Curator for Whitney Museum of Art.
• Sarah Newman 1995, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Jim Pilgrim 1963, former Deputy Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Earl A. Powell III 1966, Director of the National Gallery of Art 1992–present.
• Phillip Prodger 1990, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum
• James Rondeau 1994, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago
• Nancy Spector 1984 (M.A.), Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
• Joseph C. Thompson 1981, Director, MASS MoCA.
• Kirk Varnedoe 1968, Chief Curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, until his death in 2003.
• John Wetenhall 1982 (M.A.), President of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
• Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. 1965, Curator of Northern Baroque painting, National Gallery of Art
• James N. Wood 1963, Former Director and President of the Art Institute of Chicago (1980–2004); December 2006: Named President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
• Charles Wylie 1986 (M.A.), Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art.