Staff

Lindsay Bosch

Senior Manager of Marketing & Communications

phone: 847.467.4602
email: lindsay.bosch

Contact me for press and media inquiries, staff interviews, online resources, and general museum inquiries.  I would be happy to connect with student and faculty researchers on subjects related to arts marketing, non-profit organizations, digital and content strategy, and audience engagement and evaluation.

Janet Dees

Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

phone: 847.491.8016
email: janet.dees

I develop exhibitions in the areas of modern and contemporary art, and as part of the curatorial team work to strategically expand the museum’s collection in those areas.  My research foci include contemporary art in the Americas,  performance art, the construction of race in American art, and the ways in which contemporary artists engage with history, with particular commitments to the production of African American, African diasporic, and Native American and Indigenous contemporary artists.

Corinne Granof

Academic Curator

phone: 847.491.4980
email: c-granof

Contact me for information on teaching with the collection and graduate fellowships. As academic curator, I aim to foster faculty and student engagement with artworks in the museum collection through exhibitions, museum visits, research, and special projects. My background is 20^thcentury American and European art, with a focus on Weimar Germany in the 1920s and the United States in the 1960s.

Essi Rönkkö

Associate Curator of Collections

phone: 847.467.5896
email: essi.ronkko

Contact me with questions about how to incorporate objects in The Block’s collection into teaching at Northwestern or about our undergraduate curatorial internship program. I am also interested in connecting around my research interests related to gender in the ancient Mediterranean and subjects related to curricular programming in the context of academic museums.

Joseph Scott

Collections and Exhibitions Coordinator

phone: 847.467.0734
email: joseph.scott

Contact me with questions about the collection, collection care, potential collection visits, and rights and reproduction requests. I am able to consult widely on exhibition details and planning.

Rita Shorts

Business Administrator

phone: 847.491.4002
email: d-shorts

I am responsible for payroll, accounts payable, purchasing, procurement, and supporting finance and budget, and providing support to the museum staff in various administrative capacities. Please contact me if you have any questions in these areas. I particularly look forward to meeting and onboarding our students at the beginning of each fiscal year.

Alisa Swindell

Curatorial Research Associate

email: alisa.swindell

My role at the Block is to conduct research and assist in the development of a special exhibition. My personal areas of research are the history of photography and other modes of contemporary art with a focus on race and sexuality. My current major research project is on how notions of desire were created and maintained during the height of the AIDS crisis by artists with a photographic practice who are associated with communities most affected by the crisis.