Staff Profile

Sarah Ganz Blythe joined the Harvard Art Museums as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director in 2024. Previously, she held curatorial, education, and conservation positions at the RISD Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Harvard Art Museums. Ganz Blythe is an active scholar who has taught at Brown University, Wellesley College, and RISD and has published widely throughout her career on the complicated histories of museums, art pedagogy, and underrepresented female artists. Her publications include Why Art Museums? The Unfinished Work of Alexander Dorner with Andrew Martinez (MIT Press, 2018) and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch with Dominic Molon and Kajette Solomon (Yale University Press, 2024). From 2014 to 2024, Ganz Blythe was editor-in-chief of the RISD Museum’s award-winning periodical Manual, a journal about art and its making. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Kress Foundation/Association of Art Museum Curators Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.