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Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA), with the support of Eastman Museum Los Angeles, presents Women Curators, the final event in its Year of the Woman series, on Monday, March 2, 2026, at 7:00pm, taking place at Beverly Hills Public Library (444 N Rexford Dr., 2nd Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90210). This interactive discussion will invite audience participation to further examine the role of curators within the broader visual arts ecosystem, and their influence on the development, visibility, and legacy of artists’ work.
This free, in-person event has limited capacity; advance registration is highly recommended. Go here for more information and to RSVP.
Women Curators will feature a panel discussion bringing together an intergenerational group of curators at different stages of their careers. Sarah Greenough, Emilia Mickevicius, and Britt Salvesen will join moderator Allison Pappas for a conversation examining the evolving role of curatorial practice in photography over the past four decades. In that period, the medium went from being collected by just a handful of museums to being viewed as one of the most popular and incisive forms of contemporary art in institutions of all sizes around the country—holding relevance that will almost certainly continue to grow in more critical and complex dimensions with future social and technological changes. The event concludes PAC LA’s Year of the Woman series, honoring the powerful women who helped to shape the organization’s first decade. These flagship events are made possible with meaningful sponsorship from Eastman Museum LA.
Sarah Greenough
Sarah Greenough is senior curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art. In 1978, she was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship at the National Gallery, where she worked until her retirement earlier this year. In 1990, she became the founding curator of the department of photographs and has been responsible for establishing and growing the National Gallery’s collection of photographs. During her time at the National Gallery she organized numerous exhibitions, including Alfred Stieglitz (1983), On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography (1989), Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries(2001), André Kertész (2005), Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (2005), Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (2009), and Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg(2010), all of which traveled to museums around the world. Greenough received her PhD and MA from University of New Mexico where she studied with the noted photographic historian Beaumont Newhall.
Emilia Mickevicius
Emilia Mickevicius is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and Phoenix Art Museum. In her role, she primarily draws from the CCP’s collection to craft exhibitions for audiences in Phoenix. Her recent projects include Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body, Funny Business: Photography and Humor, and exhibitions on photographers Richard Avedon and Laura Aguilar. From 2019 to 2023 Mickevicius worked in the Photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she contributed to numerous exhibitions of work by historical and living artists. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2019.
Britt Salvesen
Britt Salvesen is Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Departments at LACMA. Recent curatorial projects include Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film (with Staci Steinberger, 2024–25) and City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907 (with Leah Lehmbeck and Vanessa R. Schwartz, 2022).
Allison Pappas
Allison Pappas is the Jane P. Watkins Assistant Curator of Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum. She is co-authoring the book Framing the Field: Photography’s Histories in American Institutions, which explores the institutional establishment of the field of photography from the 1970s through 1990s through long-form interviews and archival research. Previously, Pappas served as Assistant Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She holds an MA in the History of Art from Williams College and a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University.
Photographic Arts Council LA (PAC LA)
The mission of PAC LA is to educate and empower communities through an evolving public conversation about photography and photo-based arts, the primary visual language of our time. At its core, PAC LA is committed to creating learning opportunities through unique, collaborative programming that engages and unifies in a space without exclusion.
Photographic Arts Council LA is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of the Organizational Grant Program, and Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan, as well as the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at arts.ca.gov.
Eastman Museum Los Angeles
Eastman Museum Los Angeles is a recently launched venture of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York—with the mission of contributing to arts, culture, and education in Los Angeles. The George Eastman Museum is a cultural, educational, and historical institution established in 1947 and recognized worldwide for its collections that include photographic objects, films, technology objects, a vast library, and archival materials related to photography, cinema, and the life of George Eastman. Eastman LA plans to open a museum venue in Los Angeles and is continuing to search for an appropriate space. The venue will present exhibitions related to photography, moving images, and technology—making the George Eastman Museum collections accessible to a larger audience while creating a new space for contemporary photography and visual culture in Los Angeles.
