PhD alumna Melissa Venator was named Assistant Curator of Modern Art at the St. Louis Art Museum in April. An expert in German art, Melissa’s work at SLAM concentrates on the museum’s outstanding holdings of over 2,500 works from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Melissa started at the museum in June 2019 as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Modern Art. During her fellowship, she worked on the forthcoming book “German Expressionism: Paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum.”
Melissa completed her dissertation, “Light Play: Light Art in 1920s Germany,” in 2016 under the direction of Prof. Graham Bader and completed a two-year curatorial fellowship at Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum after graduating from Rice.