Authors

Melinda Watt leads the Art Institute’s Textiles department as Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator, a role she assumed upon joining the museum in 2018.

Cecile Webster is a books conservation technician in the Conservation and Science Department of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Elizabeth Wigfield is an associate paintings conservator in the departments of Arts of Asia and Painting and Sculpture of Europe.

Dail Williams is a Ryan Learning Center facilitator at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Leslie M. Wilson is academic curator and director of research programs of the Research Center.

Matthew S. Witkovsky is the Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator, Photography and Media, and vice president for strategic art initiatives.

Loren Wright is the McMullan Intern in Publishing and Interpretation at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sylvia Wu is a former Mellon Foundation COSI Research Fellow in Arts of Asia and a current PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.

Grace Xiao (she/her) was the McMullan Arts Leadership Intern in Publishing at the Art Institute of Chicago in summer 2023.

Alice Yasi Xie is the McMullan Arts Leadership intern in Arts of Asia.

Yilin Yang (she/her) is a curatorial assistant in the Arts of Asia department where she supports rotations planning and collections management.

Sizhao Yi is the Rhoades Foundation Curatorial Intern working in Arts of Asia this year.

Lorien Yonker is assistant curator for the Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium.

Yechen Zhao is assistant curator, Photography and Media, at the Art Institute of Chicago .

Emily Ziemba is the director of curatorial administration and research curator for the Department of Prints and Drawings.