Woodruff Arts Center’s Post

We are excited to announce that Anni Pullagura has joined the High Museum of Art as the Margaret and Terry Stent Associate Curator of American Art. In this role, Pullagura is responsible for the growth and development of the museum’s collection of American paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints by academically trained artists working in the United States from the seventeenth century through the 1960s, as well as related exhibitions and programs. Pullagura previously served as the inaugural postdoctoral fellow, offered jointly by the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., while also serving as a consulting assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA/Boston). In her fellowship, she worked with colleagues on the research and interpretation of the museums’ pre-twentieth-century collections. She also provided curatorial support for the YCBA’s J. M. W. Turner exhibition, “J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality,” and the reinstallation of its historic painting and sculpture galleries. She has served on the Art of the Americas Advisory Think Tank at Harvard Art Museums, which convenes American art curators for expanded study and presentation of art of the United States, and previously held fellowship positions at ICA/Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Pembroke Center at Brown University, the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pullagura earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University and her undergraduate degree from Emory University.