Congratulations to HAA alumnus Akili Tommasino for his recent appointment as Associate Curator at the Metroplitan Museum of Art in New York.
“Akili, an arts educator and expert in 20th-century avant-garde art movements, has been an associate curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 2018. Prior to joining the MFA Boston, he worked as a curatorial assistant in the department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, where he curated the 2017 exhibition “Projects: 107: Lone Wolf Recital Corps,” and published essays in Among Others: Blackness at MoMA and MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art. He also completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the Centre Pompidou.”
Text courtesy of ARTnews (available at bit.ly/akili_news).
Photo courtesy of Gregston Hurdle, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.