MARIE COSTELLO

curator

curator@northandoverhistoricalsociety.org

Marie Costello is a curator and art historian with an MA in Art History from Tufts University and an ABD from Boston University in Art History. She is also trained as a book restorer (Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze) and Art Appraiser (Mass College of Art). As Director of the Lehman Arts Center at Brooks School in North Andover and later, at the Union College Mandeville Gallery, she curated over 20 exhibitions including: Andy Warhol: Early Work, Allison Katz: The Liberator of the Liberator, Afghanistan: Weaving the Texts of War, High and Low: Projects of Eisenman Architects, African Photography, For Whose Eyes: Constructing and Deconstructing Identities, and Art or Evidence: The Power of Photojournalism. At the Worcester Art Museum, Costello was Project Manager for Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague and more recently she was an independent curator for Infinite Present: Revelations from Islamic Design in Contemporary Art (Cambridge City Hall). Costello’s curatorial projects focus on cross-cultural influences and changes in perception over time.