Martha Tedeschi

Martha Tedeschi is the former director of Harvard Art Museums and the previous deputy director for art and research at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she enjoyed a long tenure as curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings. She is a specialist in 19th-century British and American art and has been published extensively, writing in depth about James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, and John Marin. She was a former member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, a 2012 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership, a president of the Print Council of America (2009–13), and a board member of the Association of Art Museum Curators (2015–16). Martha earned a BA from Brown University, an MA from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Northwestern University.