Janna Israel
Education
Janna Israel is the Mellon Curator of Academic Engagement at the Princeton University Art Museum. In this role, she develops strategies to integrate the Museum’s collections into the University curriculum. She also oversees teaching, interdisciplinary initiatives, and the interpretation of the collections.
Israel previously served as Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), where she directed research on a range of exhibitions and book projects including Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012) and Conservation Spotlight: Titian. Saint John the Baptist (Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2012). Additionally, at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Israel developed interpretation, programs, and numerous exhibitions and installations, including By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, and Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage, as well as exhibitions of contemporary artists.
Israel is currently completing her book project, The Nature of Ores: Early Modern Metalwork. Her research has been supported by several grants and institutions including the Rome Prize, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Villa I Tatti, the Delmas Foundation, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received her PhD for a dissertation on early modern Venice.
