Met Announces New Curators

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced as new curators Diana Craig Patch, Joanne Pillsbury and Ronda Kasl.

Diana Craig, will serve as the new curator in charge for the Egyptian art department, while Joanne Pillsbury, a specialist in the arts of the ancient Americas, joined the Museum's staff on September 9 will serve as the Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. And Ronda Kasl, a specialist in the art of Spain and Colonial Latin America, began work on July 1 as a Curator in the American Wing.

About the appointment of Diana Craig Patch, Mr. Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of MET expressed: "Diana is a consummate curator, scholar, and archaeologist who has played an important role in the Department of Egyptian Art for the past 17 years … I look forward to working with her in her new capacity as she leads the department's team of superb curators in presenting exhibitions and overseeing the Museum's vast Egyptian collection—one of the finest in the world and one of the most studied and most visited by our millions of visitors each year."

On the entrance of Joanne Pillsbury and Ronda Kasl, Mr. Campbell said: "The arrival of these fine scholars will allow us to enhance and develop our coverage of artistic traditions that developed across the Americas both before colonialism and beyond. I look forward to working with Joanne to advance appreciation for the Met's ancient American holdings, an area in which the Museum has been a long-time leader, and to focusing with Ronda on building a significant representation of Colonial Latin American art."

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