Location: Charles Knox Smith Hall, 9201 Germantown Avenue

with Elizabeth Kornhauser, Consulting Senior Curator and Chair of The Church 200 Committee for The Olana Partnership; formerly the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture,  Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Dr. Kornhauser is one of the country’s leading specialists and curators of American art. She has been at The Metropolitan Museum since 2010 and completed work on the American Painting and Sculpture galleries which opened in January 2012. Most recently, she served as co-curator of two major exhibitions at The Met: Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo (2021), which traveled to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings (2018), which traveled to the National Gallery, London. Dr. Kornhauser also co-curated: Rediscovering Thomas Hart Benton’s “America Today” Murals (2014); Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River (2015); and John Singer Sargent’s Portraits of Artists and Friends (2015). An expert in the field of American paintings, she has broadened the American Wing’s collection with major acquisitions, while also expanding historical narratives to highlight the works and contributions of women African Americans, and Indigenous peoples. In honor of her notable career at The Met, she will be recognized as Curator Emerita.