Kate McNamara MA-CCS ’07 Named Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
Kate McNamara MA-CCS ’07.
Bard alumna Kate McNamara MA-CCS ’07 has been named director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University. The Carpenter Center develops programming like artist talks, curator Q&As, and workshops that involve the community in artistic practice. Previously, McNamara curated cross-genre art exhibitions and served as interim director of Providence College Galleries. “What excites me most about this moment is the opportunity to deepen the Carpenter Center’s role as a leading contemporary art space,” said McNamara. “We are building an ecosystem where artists, students, scholars, and local residents encounter art as a living, shared practice.”
The Center for Curatorial Studies is an incubator for experimentation in exhibition-making and the leading institution dedicated exclusively to curatorial studies. It includes the Graduate Program for Curatorial Studies, an intensive course of study in the history of contemporary art, the institutions and practices of exhibition making, and the theory and criticism of contemporary art since the 1960s.
Post Date: 04-07-2026
The Center for Curatorial Studies is an incubator for experimentation in exhibition-making and the leading institution dedicated exclusively to curatorial studies. It includes the Graduate Program for Curatorial Studies, an intensive course of study in the history of contemporary art, the institutions and practices of exhibition making, and the theory and criticism of contemporary art since the 1960s.
Post Date: 04-07-2026