Authors

Julie Simek is a conservator of paintings, specializing in European Old Master paintings.

Courtney Smith has been a project manager on the Art Institute’s Exhibitions team since 2018.

Jason Stec currently is the time-based media exhibition designer on the museum’s Experience Design team.

Ken Sutherland is the Andrew W. Mellon Director, Scientific Research in the Department of Conservation and Science, where his primary research interests concern the characterization of organic materials in artworks. 

Ginia Sweeney is the associate director of interpretation in the Department of Publishing.

Gabriela Trinidad-Pérez (she/her) is a McMullan Arts Leadership intern, a Caribbean arts professional, and a student part of the dual degree program in Modern and Contemporary Art History and Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

nikhil trivedi is the director of engineering at the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a facilitator, educator, and community builder.

Giovanni Verri is a conservation scientist in the Department of Conservation and Science.

Kirk Vuillemot is the associate conservator for preparation and framing

Tao Wang is the Pritzker Chair of Arts of Asia and curator of Chinese art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and executive director of initiatives in Asia, which he joined in 2015.

Erica Warren joined the Art Institute’s Textiles department in 2016 as assistant curator and became associate curator in 2019.

Melinda Watt leads the Art Institute’s Textiles department as Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator, a role she assumed upon joining the museum in 2018.

Matthew S. Witkovsky is the Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator, Photography and Media, and vice president for strategic art initiatives.

Loren Wright is the McMullan Intern in Publishing and Interpretation at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sylvia Wu is a Mellon Foundation COSI Research Fellow in Arts of Asia and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.