Art on the Streets—27th Annual Exhibition Jurors

Michelle Sunset is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie, Wyoming. She has been working at the UW Art Museum since 2020, originally joining the team as Assistant Curator. Previously serving as Exhibits Manager at the Florida Historic Capitol Museum and as a Curatorial Assistant at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, Michelle excitedly transitioned into academia and the Mountain West.   In her current role, she manages long-term exhibition planning, curates original exhibitions, writes grant proposals, heads the collections advisory committee, and mentors student interns, among the many other duties that arise when working on a small staff. Situated on the campus of the state’s land-grant (and only four-year) university, the UW Art Museum has 25,000 square feet of exhibition space that rotates through an average of ten exhibitions annually. Michelle is fortunate to work with an “encyclopedic” collection of over 11,000 works and a broad mission to engage with contemporary artists around the world. While her exhibition projects are wide-ranging, she is most engaged in research and fieldwide conversations about representation and censorship in our institutions.   Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of North Florida. She also holds two Masters of Arts from Florida State University: in the History and Criticism of Art with a focus in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies and in Art Education with a specialization in Visitor-Centered Curation.