High Museum names new curator of American art
February 4, 2009 at 3:25 pm by Debbie Michaud in A&E, NewsStephanie Heydt has been named the new Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art at the High. Previously, Heydt worked as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, Fla.
A little on Heydt’s background from the press release:
Heydt received her doctorate of philosophy and art history from Boston University in 2008. She also holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Prior to her position at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, she served as the Jakob Rosenberg Fellow in American art at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from 2002 through 2005. Heydt also served as an assistant curator at the Terra Museum of American Art (now the Terra Foundation) in Chicago and has widely lectured and published on 19th- and 20th-century American art and culture.
Heydt’s appointment marks the end of a nearly two-year effort to replace Sylvia Yount, who left the High in early 2007 to join the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as its Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art.
Heydt officially joined the High Museum staff on Jan. 16.
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