Kevin Stayton
Chief Curator
Since Kevin Stayton joined the Brooklyn Museum in 1980, he has held a number of positions, including Chair of the Department of Decorative Arts and has organized a number of major exhibitions. Appointed Chief Curator in 2001, he supervises, along with Charles Desmarais, all curatorial activities and programming. Considered one of the leading scholars in the field of Decorative Arts, Stayton is a graduate of Ohio State University and was awarded an M.A. in Art History and an M. Phil. from Yale University, where he was a research and exhibitions assistant at the Yale University Art Gallery. Currently Mr. Stayton is an adjunct professor at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. He has also been a member of the faculty committee of Sotheby’s Works of Art program and has taught at Columbia University and in the Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons Master’s Program. He has contributed catalogue essays, authored scholarly articles, and is the author of Dutch by Design: Tradition and Change in Two Historic Brooklyn Houses.
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