Museum Night 2010

Dr. Juliana Marciari Alexander has been Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the San Diego Museum of Art since July 2008, overseeing all aspects of the curatorial and publications programs. Previously, she was Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications at the Yale Center for British Art (2002-2008) and curator in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture (1997-2002). A specialist in the arts and visual culture of Britain and France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, she earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999, an MA in French Literature from NYU in 1992, and her BA from Wellesley College in 1989. She has published widely in her field and has curated and organized a number of major international exhibitions.

Dr. John Marciari is the Curator of European Art and the Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art. A specialist in Italian and Spanish art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Dr. Marciari is engaged in writing the first-ever scholarly catalogue of the Italian and Spanish paintings at the Museum. Previously, Dr. Marciari was the Nina & Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, where he also was the co-curator of the exhibition Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery. Dr. Marciari received his B.A. in Classics from Grinnell College, and his Ph.D. and M.A. in the History of Art from Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.