Susan Fisher Sterling is an American

art curator A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular ins ...

, currently the Director of the

National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openi ...

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She has been an activist in the

Feminist art movement in the United States The feminist art movement in the United States began in the early 1970s and sought to promote the study, creation, understanding and promotion of women's art. First-generation feminist artists include Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Suzanne Lac ...

since the early 1980s.

Education

Sterling holds a Master's and Ph.D. in Art History from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, and specialized in Modern and Contemporary art.

Career

Sterling became an associate curator of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1988. Two years later, she was promoted to curator of modern and contemporary art, and again to chief curator in 1994. She became deputy director in 2001, and finally Director of the

in 2008, and has held the position since.

Awards

Sterling was awarded Orders of Merit from Brazil and Norway. She was awarded the President's Award by the

Women's Caucus for Art The Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), founded in 1972, is a non-profit organization based in New York City, which supports women artists, art historians, students, educators, and museum professionals. The WCA holds exhibitions and conferences to promo ...

in 2009. In 2011, she received

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's 30th Honor's award.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sterling, Susan Directors of museums in the United States American feminist artists American art curators American women curators Princeton University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women Washington University in St. Louis alumni