Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
About the Center: Staff

Catherine Morris
Curator

Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Catherine J. Morris was an independent curator for more than twelve years prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum. Morris has organized several exhibitions that explored issues related to feminism and its impact as a social, political, and intellectual construct on the development of visual culture—among them Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, and Gloria and Regarding Gloria at White Columns, New York. She was the co-curator of Hans Hoffmann: Circa 1950, on view at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and curated 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966, which originated at the MIT List Visual Art Center. Morris has also been Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has authored or contributed to several scholarly publications and catalogues, including two books about Cindy Sherman. A longtime Brooklyn resident, Morris is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the recipient of an M.A. from Hunter College. As Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, she will organize a wide range of special exhibitions and oversee the Center's permanent collection, which includes The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago.

Sarah Giovanniello
Research Assistant

Sarah Giovanniello is a writer, performer, director, independent curator, and the Research Assistant at the Elizabeth A. Sacker Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Before moving to Brooklyn in 2006 to pursue a M.A. in Performance Studies at New York University, Sarah lived in Philadelphia, where she worked as the Assistant Coordinator at the Kelly Writers House, and a studio assistant to an interdisciplinary theater artist and puppeteer, while performing in and around the city. In 2007, she received an independent Library Research Grant from the J. Paul Getty Research Institute for a project on women artists in the Fluxus Movement. Sarah has interned for TDR: The Drama Review, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and the Vito Acconci Studio in Brooklyn. She also holds a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College, and acknowledges that she learned almost everything she knows about feminism from her mother, her grandmothers, and Sassy Magazine.

Special Thanks

We would like to thank our staff and interns, past and present, for all of their dedication and hard work. The Brooklyn Museum and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is also indebted to Maura Reilly, founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 2003–8, and to Judy Chicago.