Susan Badder is currently a professor of art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a free-lance curator/museum educator. Most recently she was the Senior Curator for Education and Community Programs at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Previously she was Executive Director of Maryland Art Place, and had directed education programs at both the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the years she has juried and curated numerous exhibitions. Among her most recent accomplishments are Black Is A Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Art and Economics: Sienese Paintings from the Dawn of the Financial Age.