Sam Adams is the Ellen Johnson '33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Adams previously worked at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Getty. They hold a B.A. from New York University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Addressing craft, race, and sexuality, their exhibitions include a series of projects with the textile artist Sonya Clark and the award-winning exhibition, The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity.

As the Addison’s Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director, Allison Kemmerer provides creative vision for the museum—one that includes a commitment to presenting the diversity of the American narrative and the richness of the human experience through art. With over 30 years at the museum and a curatorial focus on photography and contemporary art, she has organized over 100 group and solo exhibitions and authored numerous publications focusing on artists such as Robert Adams, Jennifer Bartlett, Carroll Dunham, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor. Allison also oversees the museum’s Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence program and has worked with many artists on projects and exhibitions including, Dawoud Bey, Andrea Chung, Liz Collins, and Wendy Ewald to name a few.

Gordon Wilkins is the Robert M. Walker Curator of American Art at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. Wilkins oversees the care, exhibition, and growth of the Addison’s world-renowned collection of American art across media with a particular focus on the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has curated numerous exhibitions on a broad array of topics, ranging from European American perceptions of the natural world to 1970s Bay Area conceptual photography. Wilkins was also the curator of the critically acclaimed Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside, the first retrospective exhibition devoted to this pioneering photographer and conceptual artist. He is currently working on several special exhibition projects, notably Ching Ho Cheng: The Light Will Continue.