DENVER ART MUSEUM
Dr. Clarisse Fava-Piz appointed Assistant Curator of European and American Art Before 1900
Fava-Piz was previously the Mellon Curatorial Postdoctoral Fellow of the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. During her tenure at Meadows Museum, she curated the exhibition In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in partnership with the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Spain. In addition to being the primary editor of the exhibition catalogue, she provided crucial programming support for the show, including a film series, artist-led gallery talks, and a roundtable event with the Dallas-Fort Worth community on democratic promises in the arts.
As a curatorial fellow at Meadows Museum, Fava-Piz designed a prospectus for the reinstallation of the nineteenth-century art galleries of The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. She has also been a graduate intern at the Getty Research Institute.
Fava-Piz holds a Doctorate in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. in Art History from the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense in Paris, France. Her undergraduate work includes a B.A. in Art History from Université Sorbonne-Paris IV. Fava-Piz is fluent in English, French and Spanish. "The DAM is delighted to welcome Clarisse to its team of curatorial leaders," said Angelica Daneo, Chief Curator and Curator of European Art before 1900 at the DAM.