Authors

Makayla May is a curatorial associate in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kirill Mazor is the creative director of digital content in the Experience Design department.

Elizabeth McGoey is the Ann S. and Samuel M. Mencoff Curator, Arts of the Americas. A member of the museum’s curatorial team since 2012, she focuses on American decorative arts and design.

Elizabeth Mescher serves as the collection manager for the Architecture and Design department.

Dan Meyer is the assistant director of Donor Stewardship.

Brittany Miller is the executive director of Revenue and Planning at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Felicia Mings is currently a curator at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto.

Mia Moore (she/her/they/them) is a McMullan Arts Leadership Intern who recently completed a bachelor’s of arts in history with minors in social justice studies and sociology at Roosevelt University.

Natalie Y. Moore is a senior lecturer and director of audio journalism programming at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She has worked for Chicago’s National Public Radio affiliate, WBEZ, and writes a monthly column for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her writing has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Ebony, Essence, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others. Her play The Billboard was produced by Chicago’s 16th Street Theater in 2022. Her book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (2016) won the Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction. She was named a Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow by the Pulitzer Center in 2020 and Best Journalist by the Chicago Reader in 2017.

Andrea Morgan is the research associate in Painting and Sculpture of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Annie Morse is an independent art educator and curator who has worked with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center, Columbia College Chicago and 3Arts, among other organizations.

Research conservator Kim Muir joined the Art Institute in 2005, where she has been an integral member of the Conservation and Science department.

Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction.

Michael Neault is associate vice president and executive creative director, Experience Design, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jen Nelson is the director of marketing at the Art Institute of Chicago.