Lecture with Naomi Slipp on Whaling and its Impacts

Naomi Slipp is a museum professional with diverse experience in exhibition curation, academic publishing, higher education, and strategic visioning and implementation. She is passionate about interdisciplinary storytelling, leveraging collections to connect with diverse audiences in meaningful ways, and inspiring connections between past and present. Slipp holds a PhD from Boston University and MA from the University of Chicago, is trained as an art historian, and has published and presented widely on diverse topics for different audiences. Formerly an Associate Professor of Art History at Auburn University, Slipp has also worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard Art Museums, and Terra Foundation for American Art, among others. As the Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Endowed Chair for Chief Curator and Director of Museum Learning at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Slipp is a member of the senior leadership team, directs all activities related to collections, curatorial, and museum learning for the organization, and has curated several special exhibitions including Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth Century American Landscapes (2023), A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed (2023), and The Wider World & Scrimshaw (2024).

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