Moderator

Isabella Lores-Chaves, Associate Curator, European Paintings, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Isabella Lores-Chavez is Associate Curator of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she oversees the collection's Netherlandish paintings. She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia in 2022, with a dissertation about plaster casts in seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. In 2013, she curated a small exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Dutch and French Genre Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection. Isabella has previously worked at the Getty and LACMA.

Moderator

Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón, Curator, Musdeo de Arte de Ponce

Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón has a BA from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, MA from The George Washington University, and a MPhil from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is currently Curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce, where she oversees a collection that offers a rich panorama of Western Art from the late Middle Ages until the early twentieth century and an important collection of Puerto Rican Art from the eighteenth until the twenty-first century.

Speaker

Heather Hughes, Kathy and Ted Fernberger Associate Curator of Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Heather Hughes is the Kathy and Ted Fernberger Associate Curator of Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A specialist in early modern Northern European prints, Hughes's curatorial projects cover the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries. Recent exhibitions include Diana Scultori: An Engraver in Renaissance Rome and Philosophers, Muses, and Gods: The Ancient World in Dutch and Flemish Prints. She has previously held positions at Wellesley College's Davis Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Rijksmuseum.

Marlise Brown, Assistant Curator of European and American Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum

Dr. Marlise Brown (she/her) is the Assistant Curator of European and American Art Before 1900 at the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Her research focuses on the role of decorative arts in negotiating status, race, labor, and global commerce in eighteenth-century Europe. Grants from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Decorative Arts Trust, Fulbright Commission, and the Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation have supported her research and professional development.

Cindy Kang, Curator, The Barnes Foundation

Dr. Kang’s research focuses on the relationship between painting and decorative arts in 19th- and 20th-century France. At the Barnes, she curated or co-curated Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris (2023-24),  Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray (2020), and was the venue curator for  Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist (2018–19). A former fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Research Institute, she received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.