Jeannine A. O’Grody is Chief Curator and Curator of European Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She received her PhD from Case Western Reserve University; MA from Syracuse University’s Florence Fellowship Program; and BA from the College of William & Mary.

Senior Curator Donald A. Wood, PhD has served at the Birmingham Museum of Art since 1987. He was appointed as The Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art in 2000, and served as Chief Curator from to 1996 to 2008.

Emily G. Hanna is the Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Iowa, and was the first recipient of the Stanley Fellowship for the Graduate Study of African Art.

Anne Forschler-Tarrasch received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her PhD in Art History at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on European decorative arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Graham C. Boettcher is the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. He holds a doctorate in the History of Art from Yale University, where his dissertation focused on domestic violence in antebellum American art.

Ron Platt joined the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2007 as the Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Platt organizes and implement exhibitions, installations, and their accompanying publications, and leads in the acquisition of works for the Museum’s growing collection of modern and contemporary art.