Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series: Elisabeth Callihan

Monday, March 29, 2021

7:00 PM-8:00 PM

Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for the first iteration of the Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series featuring Elisabeth Callihan on March 29 at 7:00 p.m.

Elisabeth Callihan (she/her) is the Head of Multi-Generational Learning at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where she leads a team in co-creating arts-based experiences with the museum's communities and stakeholders. Prior to joining the Mia staff in 2014, she managed adult programs at the Brooklyn Museum, where she was responsible for an expansive portfolio of exhibition-based programming, including the community-driven Target First Saturday series. Before that, she was Manager of Public Programs and Public Relations at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and Co-Director and Curator of the alternative art space Odessa Projects. She holds a BA in art history from the University of Evansville; an MA in fine and decorative art from Sotheby’s Institute London; and a certificate in French language & culture from the Institut Catholique in Paris. She is the co-founder of Museum As Site for Social Action (MASS Action), a national collaborative movement advocating for equity in the museum field. Callihan is the author of several articles exploring museums and social engagement that have appeared in Apollo Magazine, the Journal of Museum Education, and a chapter in the book Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today’s Networked World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).

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lsc64@drexel.edu