Jennifer Bahus is the communications officer at the North Carolina Museum of Art. She holds a B.A. in English and art history from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Jennifer also holds a M.A. degree in art history (with concentrations in Italian Renaissance art and modern art) from the University of Virginia. She has assisted in teaching various art history classes, including history of photography courses. Prior to joining the staff at the North Carolina Museum of Art Jennifer held a fellowship in the curatorial department at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fl., where she worked on various exhibitions and publications related to European and Asian art.

Kristine Door
Kristine Door is Coordinator of Docent and Adult Programs at the North Carolina Museum of Art. She received her PhD from Ohio University and her MA and BS from The University of Minnesota. Her dissertation on Seventeen-Century Dutch Still life Painting was assisted by a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands. Previously she was a Professor of Art History at The University of North Dakota.

Linda Johnson Dougherty is curator of contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, where she is currently organizing exhibitions and developing artists’ projects for the new Museum Park. Prior to joining the staff at the North Carolina Museum of Art, she was an independent curator and critic, co-director of the public art program for the North Carolina Arts Council, and a curator at The Phillips Collection, a research associate at the National Gallery of Art, and a research assistant at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. She has a BA in Art History from Wesleyan University and an MA in Art History from Williams College.

Daniel P. Gottlieb
Daniel P Gottlieb is deputy director for Museum Planning and design, directing the development of the 164 acres Museum Park and the proposed building expansion. In the course of his research for the Museum Park, he visited 18 related open-air sculpture projects in the United States, Europe and Japan, and was awarded a Goethe Travel Fellowship for the research. He now directs several collaborative design teams of artists, architects and landscape architects to help make the NCMA new kind of museum campus. His degrees are in fine art and design and he has a Masters in Art Administration degree.

Huston Paschal
Huston Paschal earned a B.A. from Harvard University and then worked on the Black Mountain College Research Project. Artists for whom she has organized NCMA exhibitions and written catalogues include Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Richard C., Ray Johnson, Elizabeth Matheson, and Tom Phillips. She recently was co-curator of Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight and is now co-curator of Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design in North Carolina. Paschal served as editor of The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Fiftieth Anniversary and the Museum’s Bulletin devoted to German Expressionism.

Emily Rosen
Emily S. Rosen is the deputy director for marketing and operations at the North Carolina Museum of Art. She received her M.F.A. in fine art photography and printing technology from Rochester Institute of Technology (NY) and her B.F.A. from Antioch College (Ohio). Prior to joining the NCMA staff, Emily spent 13 years working at the Cleveland Museum of Art in various positions involving marketing, publishing, business and product development. For her, photographs and reproductions thereof are the ultimate mediums for creative and powerful expression.

Lauren Harry Ryan
Lauren Ryan is assistant curator of exhibitions at the North Carolina Museum of Art. She received a M.A. in museum studies with a concentration in modern and contemporary art from The George Washington University and received a B.A. from North Carolina State University. Prior to joining the staff at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Lauren served as the assistant to the chief curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC where she worked on exhibitions and publications related to contemporary art. Lauren is the co-curator of In Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection.

David H. Steel, Jr.
David H. Steel, Jr. is the curator of European Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. He received a Ph.D in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His dissertation was entitled, The Mural Decoration of the "Chiostro dei Carracci" at San Michele in Bosco, Bologna. Steel has curated most of NCMA’s blockbuster exhibitions, including A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1994; co-organized exhibition; co-authored catalogue; Rodin: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection and additional works from public and private collections, April 15-August 13, 2000; Matisse Picasso and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2004-5.

Ashley Weinard
Ashley Weinard received her B.A. in art history and Italian studies from Vassar College. She earned a Master's degree from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, with a concentration in Italian Renaissance Art. She served as Educational Liaison for The Frick Collection, New York and Coordinator of Teacher Programs at the Art Institute of Chicago before settling in Raleigh. She currently manages school and adult programs at the North Carolina Museum of Art where she launched a new on-line educational resource, www.artnc.org. This interdisciplinary resource includes lesson plans and printable resources for teachers. The initiative won the prestigious 2005 MUSE award from the American Association of Museums.

Chad Alan Weinard
Chad Alan Weinard is the GlaxoSmithKline Curatorial Fellow at the North Carolina Museum of Art. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he earned his M.A. in the History of Art. He received his B.A. from Duke University, with majors in Art History and Studio Art. Prior to joining the museum, Chad worked as a painter, writer and critic, and his current research interests include 1950's American painting and contemporary art & technology. His dissertation, entitled Robert Rauschenberg and the Aesthetic of Memory, is forthcoming. Chad was instrumental in launching a weblog for the Museum.

Dennis P. Weller
Dennis P. Weller is chief curator and curator of northern European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. He is adjunct professor of art history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1992, where he completed his dissertation on Jan Miense Molenaer. The recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship in The Netherlands, and an Andrew Mellon post-doctoral fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, he also was the first Friends of the Mauritshuis scholar in The Hague. Dr. Weller has lectured and written extensively on the art of the Low Countries. His exhibitions include Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers; Like Father, Like Son: Paintings by Frans Hals and Jan Hals; and most recently, Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He also co-curator In Focus with Lauren Harry Ryan.

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