Museums of Art Respond to Latin American and Caribbean Migration: A Panel Discussion

As part of its ongoing Museum Current lecture series, which focuses on recent scholarship, discoveries, and trends in Museum Studies, the McMullen Museum has invited  University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum Director Jill Deupi, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Bass Museum of Art Silvia Karman Cubiñá, and Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University Jordana Pomeroy to participate in a panel examining examine the effects of Latin American and Caribbean migration on museums, their collections, and their audiences in South Florida over the last seventy years. McMullen Museum Director Nancy Netzer and Curator of Mariano: Variations on a Theme Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta will moderate  the discussion.

Free; virtual; register at https://tinyurl.com/ufyk9je9

Since 2008, Silvia Karman Cubiñá has held the position of Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Bass in Miami Beach. During her tenure, the museum’s annual budget and full-time staff has quadrupled, and the board has grown from three members to thirty. Ms. Cubiñá has organized more than thirty major exhibitions at the Bass including: Where Do We Go From Here: Selections from la Colección Jumex (2009), Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves (2011), Ugo Rondinone: good evening beautiful blue (2017), The Haas Brothers: Ferngully (2018), Haegue Yang: In the Cone of Uncertainty (2019), and Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights (2019).

Jordana Pomeroy is the Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University and an adjunct professor in the department of art and art history, where she focuses on gender theory. She currently serves on the board of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. She received her BA from Bryn Mawr College and holds a PhD in art history from Columbia University. She was a member of the inaugural class of the Center for Curatorial Leadership and completed the Getty Leadership Institute program. Dr. Pomeroy wrote her dissertation on the sale of the Orléans Collection and the origins of London’s National Gallery, which led to a post-doctoral fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Dr. Pomeroy held the position of chief curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and served as a professorial lecturer in the museum studies MA program at Georgetown University. She is currently writing a biography for young adult readers on the eighteenth-century painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Jill Deupi is the Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator of University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum. Prior to assuming this position, Deupi was director and chief curator of University Museums at Fairfield University, where she was also an assistant professor of art history. She is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the Leading Change Institute, and the Getty Leadership Institute. Deupi is also a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors and chair of this organization’s academic art museum affinity group.