The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Francesca Herndon-Consagra
Francesca Herndon-Consagra is Senior Curator of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, where she organizes exhibitions for a sanctuary space designed by Tadao Ando. The Pulitzer Foundation presents changing exhibitions of both contemporary and historical art and engages in a variety of programming initiatives involving the visual, literary, and performing arts. Herndon-Consagra is presently planning exhibitions on Gordon Matta-Clark, Ann Hamilton, and Joseph Beuys, as well as one devoted to the image of the Buddha. Prior to her tenure at the Pulitzer, she spent eight years as the Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. She organized numerous exhibitions with accompanying catalogues on such themes as Rembrandt’s prints, botanical illustration, and contemporary German drawings. She also helped design a new study room and storage facility for the Museum. Herndon-Consagra graduated with a Ph.D. in Art History from The Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation studied the print industry of 17th-century Rome. She has held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and has worked as the research associate to Henry A. Millon, Dean of Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the NGA. Before moving to St. Louis, she was the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Lecturer in the Art Department at Vassar College. Her earlier publications include essays on print publishing, Pietro Testa, and British drawings.
