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Eleanor
Voss
Museum
Curator
·
Decorative
Arts
&
Material
Culture
212
Fifth
Avenue
,
Apt
4
B
New
York
,
NY
10010
(212) 555-0184
·
evoss
@
curatorial
.
nyc
linkedin
.
com
/
in
/
eleanorvoss
PRO FESSIO NA L
SUM M A RY
Curator
with
twelve
years
of
experience
in
decorative
arts
,
furniture
,
and
textile
collections
at
major
US
museums
.
Combines
rigorous
object
-
based
research
with
interpretive
exhibition
design
that
broadens
audience
engagement
.
Track
record
of
securing
competitive
grants
,
publishing
in
peer
-
reviewed
journals
,
and
stewarding
high
-
value
acquisitions
.
Certified
appraiser
(
AAA
)
with
a
network
of
donors
and
scholars
across
North
America
and
Europe
.
CO R E
CO MP ET EN CI ES
Collections
management
Exhibition
curation
Provenance
research
Object
identification
Grant
writing
Conservation
coordination
Acquisition
negotiation
Cataloguing
&
digitization
Public
speaking
Collections
database
(
TMS
)
Omeka
/
CollectionSpace
Photography
(
DAM
)
L A N G UA G ES
English
(
native
)
German
(
fluent
—
reading
,
professional
correspondence
)
French
(
reading
proficiency
)
Dutch
(
conversational
,
basic
research
reading
)
G R A N T S
&
AWA R D S
TEFAF
Museum
Grant
(
$
420,000,
2023)
NEA
Art
Works
Grant
(
$
85,000, 2021)
Getty
Foundation
Curatorial
Research
Grant
(
$
32,000, 2018)
Charles
F
.
Montgomery
Prize
(2016)
Winterthur
Research
Fellowship
(2012)
A FFI L I AT I O N S
American
Alliance
of
Museums
(
AAM
)
—
Curators
Committee
Decorative
Arts
Society
(
DAS
) —
board
member
(2021–
present
)
Association
of
Art
Museum
Curators
(
AAMC
)
Appraisers
Association
of
America
(
AAA
) —
accredited
,
fine
&
decorative
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CURAT O RIA L
EXPERIENCE
Curator
of
Decorative
Arts
2019 –
present
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
·
New
York
,
NY
Assistant
Curator
,
European
Decorative
Arts
2014 – 2019
Philadelphia
Museum
of
Art
·
Philadelphia
,
PA
Curatorial
Fellow
,
American
Decorative
Arts
2012 – 2014
Winterthur
Museum
,
Garden
&
Library
·
Winterthur
,
DE
ED UCAT IO N
Ph
.
D
.
in
Art
History
2012
University
of
Delaware
,
Newark
,
DE
Dissertation
: "
The
Politics
of
the
Parlor
:
American
Rococo
Revival
Furniture
, 1840–1870" ·
Advisor
:
Dr
.
Wendy
A
.
Cooper
M
.
A
.
in
Museum
Studies
2008
Cooperstown
Graduate
Program
·
Cooperstown
,
NY
Thesis
: "
Object
Labels
and
Visitor
Interpretation
in
Historic
House
Museums
" ·
GPA
3.95
B
.
A
.
in
Art
History
,
summa
cum
laude
2006
Bard
College
·
Annandale
-
on
-
Hudson
,
NY
Senior
thesis
: "
Colonial
Silver
and
the
Construction
of
Elite
Identity
in
Eighteenth
-
Century
Boston
"
arts
ICOM
—
International
Committee
for
Museums
and
Collections
S EL ECT ED
L ECT UR ES
"
The
Global
Parlor
:
American
Rococo
Furniture
in
Transatlantic
Context
."
College
Art
Association
Annual
Conference
,
Chicago
, 2023.
"
Collecting
Newport
:
A
Secretary
Desk
Reconsidered
."
Winterthur
Museum
,
2022.
"
From
Clay
to
Cabinet
:
Ceramics
in
American
Domestic
Interiors
."
Bard
Graduate
Center
Symposium
, 2021.
"
Curating
Craft
:
Lessons
from
the
Met
."
AAM
Curators
Committee
Forum
,
Washington
,
D
.
C
., 2020.
R EFER EN CES
Dr
.
James
P
.
Harrington
Chief
Curator
,
The
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
jharrington
@
metmuseum
.
org
Dr
.
Alice
M
.
Thornton
Director
of
Curatorial
Affairs
,
Philadelphia
Museum
of
Art
athornton
@
philamuseum
.
org
Prof
.
Catherine
B
.
Lowell
University
of
Delaware
,
Dept
.
of
Art
History
clowell
@
udel
.
edu
Manage
2,400+
objects
in
the
American
decorative
arts
collection
—
furniture
,
glass
,
ceramics
,
and
silver
from
1700–1910.
–
Co
-
curated
American
Craft
: 1850–1900 (2022)
and
Shaker
Design
&
Utility
(2024);
each
attracted
over
180,000
visitors
.
–
Acquired
37
new
objects
(
budget
$
1.8
M
)
including
a
rare
Newport
block
-
and
-
shell
secretary
desk
,
funded
by
a
$
420,000
TEFAF
grant
.
–
Lead
monthly
collection
tours
for
docents
,
fellows
,
and
visiting
scholars
.
–
Assisted
with
reinstallation
of
the
European
ceramics
and
glass
galleries
(2016–2018);
wrote
62
object
labels
and
gallery
texts
.
–
Research
lead
for
Meissen
&
the
Porcelain
Revolution
(2017),
contributing
32
catalogue
entries
and
a
7,000-
word
essay
.
–
Negotiated
the
purchase
of
a
17
th
-
century
Dutch
earthenware
tile
panel
from
a
private
collector
in
Amsterdam
.
–
Trained
and
supervised
four
curatorial
interns
per
year
.
–
Catalogued
750+
pieces
of
18
th
-
and
19
th
-
century
American
furniture
;
updated
collections
database
(
TMS
)
with
provenance
and
condition
notes
.
–
Co
-
wrote
Furniture
of
the
Delaware
Valley
(
University
of
Delaware
Press
, 2015).
–
Developed
a
digital
exhibition
on
Pennsylvania
German
fraktur
and
painted
furniture
.
–
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SELECT ED
PUBLICAT IO NS
"
A
Newport
Secretary
Desk
Attributed
to
John
Goddard
:
New
Findings
."
Antiques
&
Fine
Art
,
vol
. 38,
no
. 2 (
Summer
2023):
54–63.
"
Texture
,
Touch
,
and
the
American
Parlor
:
Reinterpreting
Mid
-
Century
Rococo
Furniture
."
Winterthur
Portfolio
,
vol
. 54,
no
. 3
(
Fall
2020): 197–228.
"
Meissen
Porcelain
and
the
Eighteenth
-
Century
Global
Table
."
In
Global
Objects
:
Material
Culture
in
the
Atlantic
World
,
edited
by
M
.
S
.
Smith
, 112–138.
University
of
Pennsylvania
Press
, 2019.
"
Fraktur
,
Furniture
,
and
Folk
Identity
:
Pennsylvania
German
Material
Culture
."
American
Furniture
&
Decorative
Arts
Journal
,
vol
. 22 (2016): 88–115.
SELECT ED
EXHIBIT IO NS
CURAT ED
Shaker
Design
&
Utility
·
The
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
,
New
York
(
March
–
September
2024).
Co
-
curator
. 54
objects
.
Catalogue
with
five
scholarly
essays
.
American
Craft
: 1850–1900
·
The
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
,
New
York
(
June
2022–
January
2023).
Co
-
curator
. 98
objects
.
Received
NEA
grant
of
$
85,000.
Meissen
&
the
Porcelain
Revolution
·
Philadelphia
Museum
of
Art
(
October
2017–
April
2018).
Guest
curator
. 72
objects
.
Traveled
to
the
Gardiner
Museum
,
Toronto
.
Furniture
of
the
Delaware
Valley
: 1740–1820
·
Winterthur
Museum
(
May
–
December
2015).
Co
-
curator
. 48
objects
.
Catalogue
won
the
2016
Charles
F
.
Montgomery
Prize
.
Eleanor
Voss
·
evoss
@
curatorial
.
nyc
· (212) 555-0184 ·
Updated
September
2026
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