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Naomi Slipp is the Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Endowed Chair for the Chief Curator and the Director of Museum Learning at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. She is an art historian, with a particular focus on American art and the global circulation of knowledge, holds a PhD from Boston University and MA from the University of Chicago, has worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; MFA, Boston; Roger Williams University; Terra Foundation for American Art; and Harvard Art Museums, and was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Art History at Auburn University at Montgomery, AL. At the Whaling Museum, Slipp oversees operations related to collections, curatorial, and museum learning, and has curated special exhibitions including Turn the Tide: Courtney Mattison (2021), Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes (2022), and A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed (2023). |
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Naomi Slipp is trained as an art historian. Her research explores the intersections between art and science in the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on American art and the global circulation of knowledge.
She has published essays in Panorama, Sculpture Journal, British Art Studies, and the collections Victorian Science and Imagery (2021), Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture (2019), and Bodies Beyond Borders (2017) among other venues. Topics from her wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research includes history of marine fisheries; the history of photography; the history of science; nineteenth-century art; the history of the body, medicine, and representation; the public exhibition of panorama paintings; and environmental history and the public and private landscape. |
She holds a PhD from Boston University and MA from the University of Chicago, has worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; MFA, Boston; Roger Williams University; Boston University Art Gallery; Terra Foundation for American Art; and Harvard Art Museums, and was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Art History at Auburn University at Montgomery, AL, where she lived and worked for six years.
She arrived at the Whaling Museum in 2021. Today, she oversees all operations related to the collections, curatorial activities, and museum learning, manages a team of 12 staff, and has curated a number of special exhibitions including Turn the Tide: Courtney Mattison (2021), Unvarnished: Conservation of Charles Sidney Raleigh's Panorama of a Whaling Voyage (2021), Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes (2022), Whale Stranding: Daniel Ranalli (2023), and A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed (2023). The last three exhibitions were accompanied by fully illustrated scholarly catalogs.
Slipp grew up on the coast of New England, in Bristol, RI, with summers in Mashpee, MA. That proximity to the water has had a fundamental impact, and shapes her connections to the Museum’s collections and communities. She lives with her husband, four-year-old son, and ten-year-old cat in Fall River, MA.
She arrived at the Whaling Museum in 2021. Today, she oversees all operations related to the collections, curatorial activities, and museum learning, manages a team of 12 staff, and has curated a number of special exhibitions including Turn the Tide: Courtney Mattison (2021), Unvarnished: Conservation of Charles Sidney Raleigh's Panorama of a Whaling Voyage (2021), Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes (2022), Whale Stranding: Daniel Ranalli (2023), and A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed (2023). The last three exhibitions were accompanied by fully illustrated scholarly catalogs.
Slipp grew up on the coast of New England, in Bristol, RI, with summers in Mashpee, MA. That proximity to the water has had a fundamental impact, and shapes her connections to the Museum’s collections and communities. She lives with her husband, four-year-old son, and ten-year-old cat in Fall River, MA.
