Ryan N. Dennis, the curator of a critically lauded show of art made in response to the Great Migration, has been named senior curator and director of public art of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Texas.
Alongside her appointment, Rebecca Matalon was promoted to senior curator and Patricia Restrepo was named curator. Matalon had previously been the museum’s curator, and Restrepo was its assistant curator and exhibitions manager.
Dennis was most recently chief curator and artistic director of the Center for Art & Public Exchange at Jackson’s Mississippi Museum of Art. The best known of her projects for that institution was “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration,” which was co-organized with the Baltimore Museum of Art and which debuted in 2022.