Karl Kusserow

John Wilmerding Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum.

Kusserow is the John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. His exhibitions include “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,” which he co-organized with Alan Braddock, associate professor of art history and American studies at the College of William and Mary and the 2016 PEI Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities. The traveling exhibition gathered works of art from the colonial period to the present to examine for the first time how American artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding, while contributing to the emergence of a modern ecological consciousness. Kusserow is preparing a related volume, “Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective.”