New Voices Shaping Our Museums
Maggie Adler, Assistant Curator, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Margaret C. Adler is Assistant Curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in
Fort Worth, Texas. She was the Barra Fellow at the Center for American Art at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art during the “Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line”
exhibition. Prior to Philadelphia, Maggie held positions at the Williams College Museum
of Art and the Addison Gallery of American Art. Though her scholarly research focuses
on nineteenth century art, she is also passionate about collaborating with contemporary
artists in helping them with large-scale commissions. She holds a BA in classical
languages and the history of art and an MA in the history of art from Williams College.
Alison Hearst, Assistant Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Alison Hearst is Assistant Curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and
currently organizes the FOCUS exhibitions series. Recent FOCUS exhibitions she has
brought to the Modern include solo exhibitions by Fred Tomaselli, Jules de Balincourt,
and Mario García Torres. She is currently working on exhibitions with Joyce Pensato
and Glenn Kaino. She was the assistant curator of the exhibition México Inside Out:
Themes in Art Since 1990 and conducted an interview with Melanie Smith for the
catalogue. Hearst also contributed an essay about abstraction in the 1980s to the
catalogue for the exhibition at the Modern, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s.
Hearst has a bachelor of fine arts degree in art history from the University of North
Texas and a master’s degree in art history from Texas Christian University.
Gabriel Ritter, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Gabriel Ritter was appointed The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of
Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2012. Previously a Curatorial
Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) for three years,
Ritter organized Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan and his continued
scholarship in Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art lead him to become one of the
first non-Japanese curators of the 2013 Roppongi Crossing exhibition held by the Mori
Art Museum, Tokyo. At the DMA, Ritter recently curated the exhibition Between Action
and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga. He is also
responsible for organizing the Concentrations exhibition series, most recently
Concentrations 59: Mirror Stage – Visualizing the Self After the Internet.