Carolyn K. Carr
Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Carolyn Kinder Carr received her B.A. from Smith College, her M.A. from Oberlin College, and her Ph.D from Case Western Reserve University. From 1978 to 1983 she was chief curator at the Akron Art Museum in Ohio and taught art history at Kent State University and the University of Akron.  She is the author of Alice Neel's Women (2002); Hans Namuth: Portraits (1998); the co-author of A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery (2001); and the co-author of Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits (2004).  She most recently co-curated the 2007 National Portrait Gallery exhibition Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763 – 1848, and co-authored the accompanying publication.

Wanda M. Corn
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
 
Wanda M. Corn received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D from New York University.  She has taught at Stanford University since 1980.  A scholar of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American painting and photography, Corn has received multiple grants and awards recognizing her excellence in teaching and scholarly research.  Her books and exhibitions include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983); and The Great American Thing: Modern Art and American Identity, 1915-35 (1999), which recently was the inspiration for a museum exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, and the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington state.  She is now at work on a book about Mary Cassatt and an exhibition on Gertrude Stein and the Making of the Modern.

Brandon Fortune
Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
 
Brandon Brame Fortune graduated from Agnes Scott College, and received an M.A. and Ph.D in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She has worked at the National Portrait Gallery since 1987.  In 1999, she was co-curator of the exhibition Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America and co-author of the accompanying publication.  She was the Portrait Gallery's coordinator for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006, and is director of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009.  She is a co-curator for the 2008 National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture.

Kerry James Marshall
Artist, Chicago, Illinois
 
Kerry James Marshall is a painter, photographer, printmaker, and installation artist.  His work is in major American museums and private collections, including the Art Institute and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  He was a featured artist in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, Documenta 10, and the 2000 Carnegie International.  In 1997, he was a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation award.  Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Brian O'Doherty
Artist and Critic, New York City

Brian O'Doherty (aka Patrick Ireland) is an artist and writer.  His most recent exhibition was a fifty-year retrospective, Beyond the White Cube, at New York University's Grey Art Gallery in 2007.  His most recent publication is Studio and Cube: On the Relationship Between Where Art is Made and Where Art is Displayed (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).  He is currently gathering his art commentaries for publication.

Peter Schjeldahl
Art Critic, The New Yorker, New York City
 
Peter Schjeldahl attended Carleton College and the New School.  Between 1967 and 1981, he published five books of poetry. He was a regular art critic for ARTnews, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and 7 Days.  He joined The New Yorker in 1998. His four books of criticism include The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings (1991) and Let's See: Writings on Art from The New Yorker (2008). He has taught at Harvard University and is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for excellence in art criticism from the College Art Association.

Martin E. Sullivan
Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Martin Sullivan graduated magna cum laude from Siena College with a degree in History, and received his M.A. and Ph.D in American History from the University of Notre Dame.  From 1990 to 1999, Dr. Sullivan served as director of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.  He has chaired three national boards, including the American Association of Museums' Accreditation Commission and the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property, U.S. State Department.  In 2006, Dr. Sullivan was named to the Centennial Honor Roll of the American Association of Museums.  Dr. Sullivan joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2008 as the fifth director in the museum's history.