Guest Speaker

Katherine Page is a Modern and Contemporary art curator who, in her role as Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art, has internally curated over twenty original and collections-based exhibitions, authored essays in five catalogs, and helped to tour two exhibitions to five venues. She has also acted as a liaison, partnering with prestigious institutions for loaned objects and traveling exhibitions.

Original exhibitions Page has curated include Anila Quayyum Agha: Flourishing Patterns (2023), Impression and Reality (2023, essay), American Artists in the Southwest: Gifts from the Melanson Holt Collection (2021, catalog essay), Earl Cunningham (2019, 2021) Immersion into Compounded Time and the Paintings of Firelei Báez (2019, catalog essay), and The Unbridled Paintings of Lawrence H. Lebduska (2019, catalog essay).

She has authored several texts accompanying her collections-based exhibitions drawing important links between traveling or temporary exhibitions. These have included Turning Toward Modernism (2023), Appreciating the Everyday (2022), Ephemeral: American Impressionists and the Influence of Japan (2021), Visionary Form in Southern Black Folk Art (2021), and Portrait of a Woman (2021).

She has provided curatorial support for exhibitions In Conversation: Will Wilson (2023, Art Bridges), Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-e (2021, Reading Public Museum), Mira Lehr: High Water Mark (2020), Edward Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers (2020), Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black and Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art (2019, essay contribution and interview), Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here (2018, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art), Julie Heffernan: When the Water Rises (2018, LSU Museum of Art), Grace Hartigan 1960 - 1965: The Perry Collection (2018), and The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston (2017, University of Mississippi Museum).

Page holds dual Bachelor of Arts Degrees from the University of South Florida, Tampa in Art History and Anthropology and a Master of Arts Degree in Anthropology from the University of Central Florida, Orlando. She is a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators.