# Susan Dackerman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Dackerman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Dackerman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Dackerman > Source revision: 1351529446 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Art historian, professor and author}} {{Multiple issues| {{Primary sources|date=June 2022}} {{Unreliable sources|date=June 2022}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Susan Dackerman | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|01|10}}{{cite web |title=Dackerman, Susan |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98132381.html |website=Library of Congress |access-date=30 June 2022}} | birth_place = New York City | occupation = Art Historian | education = [Vassar College](/source/Vassar_College)
[Bryn Mawr College](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College) }} '''Susan Dackerman''' (born 1964) is an American [art historian](/source/art_historian). Dackerman worked at the [Baltimore Museum of Art](/source/Baltimore_Museum_of_Art), [Harvard Art Museums](/source/Harvard_Art_Museums), [Getty Research Institute](/source/Getty_Research_Institute), and [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University). == Early life and education == Born in New York City in 1964, Dackerman attended public schools on Long Island, received an A.B. in History of Art from [Vassar College](/source/Vassar_College) and a Ph.D. in Art History from Bryn Mawr College. == Career == Susan Dackerman began her career at the [Baltimore Museum of Art](/source/Baltimore_Museum_of_Art) in 1995 as an Assistant Curator, eventually becoming an Associate Curator (1998-99), and finally served as Curator, Department of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Illustrated Books from 1999 to 2004.{{Cite web |last=Barone |first=Matthew |date=March 10, 2005 |title=Dackerman Named Curator of Prints |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2005/03/dackerman-named-curator-of-prints/ |access-date=March 21, 2022 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}} From 2005 through 2015, Dackerman served as Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, where she directed collaborative exhibition projects and produced publications, involving faculty, students, conservators, librarians, and museum educators. Dackerman also participated in the planning for the architectural renovation and re-installation of the Harvard Art Museums building. From 2015 to 2017, Dackerman was a Getty Scholar at the [Getty Research Institute](/source/Getty_Research_Institute){{Cite web |title=Susan Dackerman appointed director of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford Universit. Cantor Arts Center Press Releases |url=https://museum.stanford.edu/about/press-releases/susan-dackerman-appointed-director-iris-b-gerald-cantor-center-visual-arts |access-date=March 21, 2022 |website=Stanford Report|date=August 11, 2017|last=Wander|first=Robin}} (GRI) in Los Angeles. As GRI Consortium Professor in 2017, Dackerman taught the graduate seminar, “Art and Anthropology,” to students from an association of southern California universities. In 2017, Dackerman was appointed director of [Cantor Center for Visual Arts](/source/Cantor_Arts_Center) at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) where she oversaw the artistic program and operations of the university's art museum. In November 2020, Dackerman resigned as director of Cantor Arts Center after an external investigation reported that she had created a toxic work environment leading to high staff turnover.{{cite web | url=https://www.artforum.com/news/susan-dackerman-to-step-down-as-director-of-stanford-s-cantor-arts-center-84478 | title=Susan Dackerman to Step Down as Director of Stanford's Cantor Arts Center | date=19 November 2020 |website=Artforum}} == Publications == * A Gallery Guide to the Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford – A Mark Dion Project, edited by Susan Dackerman and Paula Findlen, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 2019{{Cite web |title=The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford {{!}} Cantor Arts Center Exhibitions |url=https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/melancholy-museum-love-death-and-mourning-stanford |access-date=March 21, 2022 |website=museum.stanford.edu}} * “[Dürer](/source/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer)’s ''[Melencolia I](/source/Melencolia_I)'': An Allegory of Creation,” in ''Inspired: Essays in Honor of Susan Donahue Kuretsky'', Poughkeepsie: Frances Lehman Loeb Center at Vassar College, 2018{{Cite book |last=Dackerman |first=Susan |title=Inspired—Essays in Honor of Susan Donahue Kuretsky |publisher=Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College |year=2018 |isbn=9780962772016 |editor-last=Nogrady |editor-first=Elizabeth |location=Poughkeepsie |pages=26-33 |language=en-US |chapter=Dürer's Melencolia I: An Allegory of Creation |editor-last2=Seidenstein |editor-first2=Joanna Sheers}} * ''Jasper Johns: A Catalogue Raisonné of the [Monotypes](/source/Monotyping)'', with [Jennifer Roberts](/source/Jennifer_Roberts_(art_historian)), [Matthew Marks Gallery](/source/Matthew_Marks_Gallery) and Yale University Press, 2017{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Jennifer L. |title=Jasper Johns—catalogue raisonné of monotypes |last2=Dackerman |first2=Susan |date=2017 |publisher=Matthew Marks Gallery |isbn=9780300229370 |location=New York |language=en-US}} * ''[Corita Kent](/source/Corita_Kent) and the Language of [Pop](/source/Pop_art)'', edited by Susan Dackerman, with essays by [Julia Bryan-Wilson](/source/Julia_Bryan-Wilson), Susan Dackerman, Richard Meyer, and Jennifer Roberts, Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums with Yale University Press, 2015{{Cite book |last=Dackerman |first=Susan |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/grunwald-center-collection/corita-kent/essays/corita-kent-and-the-language-of-pop |title=Corita Kent and the Language of Pop |date=2015 |publisher=Harvard Art Museums |isbn=9781891771668 |language=en-US |access-date=April 28, 2026}} * ''Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe'', edited by Susan Dackerman, with essays by Susan Dackerman, Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, and Claudia Swan, Cambridge: [Harvard Art Museums](/source/Harvard_Art_Museums) with Yale University Press, 2011 * “Dürer’s Etchings: Printed Drawings?” in ''The Painter-Etcher in Early Modern Europe'', Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006 * ''Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts'', edited by Susan Dackerman, with essays by Susan Dackerman and Thomas Primeau, The Baltimore Museum of Art and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002{{Cite book |last=Dackerman |first=Susan |url=https://archive.org/details/paintedprintsrev0000dack |title=Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance |date=2002 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |isbn=0271022345 |location=University Park |language=en-US}} == References == {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dackerman, Susan}} Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:American women art historians Category:American art historians Category:Writers from New York City Category:People from Valley Stream, New York Category:Vassar College alumni Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni Category:Writers from Baltimore Category:American women curators Category:American art curators Category:Harvard University staff Category:People associated with the J. 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