Paola Morsiani
Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art

Paola Morsiani fills a large hole, both metaphorically and physically, at the new Cleveland Museum of Art. Not only has the Museum lacked a Contemporary Art Curator since late 2004 when Jeffrey Grove departed for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, but now with new massive contemporary art galleries being readied as part of Cleveland's renovation, Morsiani will finally have the space for newer that has always been missing at CMA.

Coming to her new position from The Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, where she worked her way up to senior Curator, Morsiani not only has a firm grasp on the milieu of contemporary art, her background studying art at New York University and growing up in Italy and graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Padua offers her an international perspective. She dons the hard hat and speaks with Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready from the under-construcution contemporary galleries at the CMA about how they will be able to exhibit a larger amount of the Museum's contemporary collection, and how she will aim to fill holes in the collection, look for artists of more recent generations, and how she intends to interact with the community of artists living in Northeast Ohio. http://www.ClevelandArt.org

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