Announcing the 2020 Class of the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice

Since 2014 and with the support of the Mellon Foundation, CCL has provided advanced graduate students with the knowledge and networks to pursue professional opportunities in museums.  This year’s students represent eleven different universities and are pursuing their studies in a wide range of fields, including contemporary art in India, the wooden doors of Medieval European churches, Black queer aesthetics, Hellenistic sculpture, contemporary native arts, and illustrated manuscripts from nineteenth-century Iran; their work strives to advance the field and to expand the impact of and audience for their respective disciplines.

2021 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar Class (listed alphabetically):

Barbora Bartunkova, Yale University, 20th Century European Art

Jamal Batts, University of California, Berkeley, Contemporary Art

Laura Beltran-Rubio, The College of William and Mary, Arts of Colonial Latin America

Hyunjin Cho, Boston University, 19th-Century Arts of Iran

Emily Friedman, Johns Hopkins University, 16th Century Prints and Print Culture

Kendra Greendeer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Contemporary Native American Art

Nora Lambert, University of Chicago, Italian Renaissance

Rebecca Levitan, University of California, Berkeley, Art of the Ancient Mediterranean

Emily Mazzola, University of Pittsburgh, American Art

Anthony Meyer, University of California, Los Angeles, Indigenous Arts of the Americas

Ramey Mize, University of Pennsylvania, 19th Century U.S., Latin American, and Native American Art

Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, University of California, Los Angeles, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art

Catherine Popovici, The University of Texas, Austin, Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Art

Katherine Werwie, Yale University, Medieval Sculpture

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic the annual July program has been amended. The accepted class will participate in a shortened online program this summer, will be individually paired with established curators for remote one-on-one mentorship sessions, and have deferred full in-person participation to either July 2021 or July 2022.

Further, recognizing the specific impact that museum hiring freezes have for a generation just beginning their careers, the July 202o online program has been extended to welcome all 2020 Seminar applicants. The three-day virtual curriculum includes Columbia Business School coursework as well as a series of conversations with leaders in the field, curators, CCL alumni, museum directors, and others.

We are pleased to welcome the 2020 Seminar class to the CCL network, and look forward to sharing news of their accomplishments going forward.