Two New Curators for Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center


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Two new curators are joining the Elizabeth A.
Sackler Center
for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Musuem. Welcome to Brooklyn Catherine and  Sharon.

Catherine J. Morris has organized
several exhibitions that explored issues
related to feminism and its impact as a
social, political, and intellectual construct
on the development of visual culture-among
them Decoys, Complexes and Triggers:
Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s
at the
Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York,
and Gloria and Regarding Gloria at
White Columns, New York. She is also the
co-curator of Hans Hoffmann: Circa
1950,
currently on view at the Rose Art
Museum at Brandeis University. For the past
five years Morris has also been Adjunct
Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philbrook
Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has
authored or contributed to several scholarly
publications and catalogues, including two
books about Cindy Sherman. A longtime
Brooklyn resident, Morris is a graduate of
the University of Maryland and the recipient
of an M.A. from Hunter College. As Curator of
the now-two-year-old Elizabeth A. Sackler
Center for Feminist Art, she will organize a
wide range of special exhibitions and oversee
the Center's permanent collection, which
includes The Dinner Party by Judy
Chicago.


Newly appointed Associate Curator in the
Brooklyn Museum's Exhibitions Division,
Sharon Matt Atkins has been an Assistant
Curator at the Currier Museum of Art,
Manchester, New Hampshire, since 2004. There
she was responsible for modern and
contemporary art, organizing exhibitions from
the collection as well as traveling loan
shows-among them Andy Warhol: Pop
Politics,
currently on view at the
Neuberger Museum of Art, and Spotlight New
England: Kirsten Reynolds.
Previously she
was a Research Assistant in the Department of
Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. A graduate of Iowa State University,
Atkins received an M.A. and Ph.D. from
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New
Jersey.

Artwork by Kiki Smith is part of the Sackler collection.