Sarah Humphreville, BA and BFA ’09, is Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Humphreville possesses a keen interest in museum collections and a deep commitment to identifying artists worthy of new research and recognition in the field of American art. She has curated Some American Stories, a thematic reinstallation of works from the Colby collection in the museum’s Lunder Wing that leads visitors on a journey from before the founding of the United States to the present day. Each gallery represents a different topic within the broader narrative of American art and history, reflecting a great diversity of experiences. The installation also centers collaboration by featuring the voices of nearly forty people—Colby faculty and students, scholars, community members, artists, museum educators, and curators—on the walls.
In addition, she has co-curated Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, co-organized by Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art. Abercrombie produced hundreds of paintings imbued with autobiography that revealed her emotional truth and declared it as real. This retrospective exhibition—the first nationally touring presentation of Abercrombie’s art—celebrates an artist who has been historically marginalized due to who she was and how she lived and worked.
Sarah received a BA, summa cum laude, in art history, and a BFA in painting with a minor in drawing from Cornell University in 2009. She received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for her fine arts thesis, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and served as the Degree Marshal for BFA recipients. In 2013, she received her MA from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, for which she completed a thesis on Edward Hopper and Dan Flavin.
https://museum.colby.edu/2022/09/06/colby-museum-announces-new-curatorial-hires/
