Ramey Mize (PhD'23) appointed Susan G. Detweiler Associate Curator of American Art at the PMA

On February 23, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be welcoming the return to Philadelphia of Ramey Mize (PhD'23) as the newly appointed Susan G. Detweiler Associate Curator of American Art. Ramey served earlier as a Center for American Art Summer Fellow as well as a Mellon Summer Curatorial Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania. She will be joining the staff in time to assist in the reinstallation of the new American galleries opening in April 2026 as part of the exhibition A Nation of Artists, collaboratively organized with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Middleton Family Collection as part of Philadelphia’s celebration of the Semiquincentennial.

Most recently Associate Curator at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Maine, Ramey supervised the reinstallation of the American collections there using sweeping new perspectives on the ecology of Maine and the place of Native American artists in the state’s art history. Building relationships with Indigenous artists, she grew the collection in this area and co-curated the prize-winning touring exhibition Jeremy Frey: Woven. With degrees from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and the Courtauld Institute in London, she earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023 while serving as a curatorial assistant and guest curator at the Pennsylvania Academy and then working as research assistant for the recent Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022. This experience inspired her exhibition at the Portland Art Museum forthcoming this summer, Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher, the first systematic study of the artist’s etchings. Ramey is also preparing for a retrospective exhibition of the work of Marguerite Zorach, in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago in 2028. In Philadelphia, the American Art Department looks forward to welcoming Ramey’s return to the museum, where she will be devoted to the research, conservation, and display of American painting and sculpture from the 19th and early 20th centuries, bringing her expertise and enthusiasm to building and interpreting the museum’s collections for a wide audience.