The Baltimore Museum of Art has announced that it has appointed Katy Siegel, curator at large at the Rose Art Museum, as senior programming and research curator. Siegel will be responsible for developing exhibitions, public programs, audience development initiatives, and partnerships. She will assume the role on September 1.

“As one of the most influential thinkers in the field of post-war art, [Siegel] will join an already vibrant team at the museum who will work within the institution and beyond its walls to set the BMA’s creative course for the next five to seven years,” director Christopher Bedford said.

Siegel currently serves as chair of Modern American Art at Stony Brook University. During her tenure as curator at large at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum she organized numerous shows, including “Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler,” “Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971–1974,” and “The Matter that Surrounds Us: Wols and Charline von Heyl.” Siegel is a contributing editor atArtforum and has authored several books, including The Heroine Paint: After Frankenthaler, 2015, and Since ’45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, 2011.