Elizabeth Catlett: Mentorship and Collaboration in Practice

Charmaine Branch is an independent curator and Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of Art & Archaeology and African American Studies at Princeton University. 

She studies modern and contemporary art of the Black Diaspora, with interests in printmaking, community-oriented pedagogy, and Black feminist thought. In 2023, Branch authored the interpretive texts for Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection, an Art Bridges–sponsored traveling exhibition organized by the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. She has served as a Curatorial Assistant at The Print Center and the Programming Coordinator for the digital platform Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism. 

Prior to beginning her PhD, Branch was a Curatorial Fellow at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Modern Art. Her research has been supported by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Tyson Scholar of American Art program; the Smithsonian American Art Museum Joshua C. Taylor Predoctoral Fellowship; the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library Billops-Hatch Fellowship; and the Princeton University President's Fellowship. She holds an M.A. in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College.