Cecilia Wichmann promoted to Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art

A most deserving promotion for this gifted curator!

Cecilia Wichmann, PhD candidate in the Department, has been promoted to Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Cecilia joined the BMA in 2017, first as University of Maryland Museum Fellow and then as an Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art. She was promoted to Associate Curator in 2019. She has organized or co-organized many important exhibitions, including most recently the Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams retrospective, which opens at the Seattle Art Museum on October 17, and for which she also served as co-editor of the eponymous catalog distributed by Yale University Press. Wichmann has worked closely with many other artists with deep ties to the region, including Nekisha Durrett, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Jackie Milad, Stephen Towns, and SHAN Wallace, and spearheaded the acquisition of more than 150 contemporary artworks, including Jefferson Pinder’s Ben-Hur, the first work of performance art to enter the collection. Read more. 

Congratulations Cecilia!