For our upcoming exhibition of the MCMA Permanent Collection, the Museum’s curator, Madeline Beck, selected her personal favorite and most noteworthy objects from our vault of American artwork. With painting, drawing, and sculpture that encompasses and blends the traditional and historic with the experimental and contemporary, Curator Selects… showcases the Museum’s esteemed and varied permanent collection while also exploring the personal taste and interests of our curator.
Madeline Beck was an intern at MCMA during college and has been the Museum’s curator since the summer of 2017. Prior, she was the Curatorial Assistant for the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Beck fell in love with art history while taking AP Art History in high school. She graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University with a BA in Art History and a minor in Classical Studies. While an undergraduate, her paper on Greek vase painting was the very first paper in the department ever to be published in the National Journal of Undergraduate Research. Beck’s interests in fine art include but certainly are not limited to: conceptual artwork, Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture, folk and outsider art, and art and artifacts from Western antiquity.