Jessica Bell Brown is Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Among her recent exhibition projects are How Do We Know the World? (2021–23) and A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration (2022), co-organized with the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Prior to the BMA, she was Consulting Curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York, where she co-curated She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, 1919–2019 with First Lady Chirlane McCray. Previously, she held roles at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music; and Creative Time. Her writing has been featured in monographs and catalogues devoted to Janiva Ellis, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Lubaina Himid, Baldwin Lee, and Thaddeus Mosley as well as in Flash Art, Artforum, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and the Brooklyn Rail.
Making Their Mark:
Art by Women in the
Shah Garg Collection
Edited by Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel, this book explores the bold vision and vast range of achievements of 136 women artists drawn from the Shah Garg Collection.