Instructor
Dr. Leslie K. Brown is an independent curator, scholar, and educator who specializes in the history of photography and modern and contemporary art.
Brown has taught as a faculty member across New England, teaching both undergraduates and graduates at Boston University, Emerson College, Lesley College of Art and Design, Simmons University, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Wellesley College. At BU, she has taught in CAS and MET, and is currently teaching a second-year seminar in CFA’s new MFA program in Print Media and Photography.
For eight years, she was Curator at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston and curated or oversaw over 40 exhibitions. Brown has also worked as a museum educator at the Cheekwood Museum of Art and Austin Museum of Art.
During her teaching, Brown continues to work as a freelance arts professional, authoring essays for exhibition catalogs and artist books. She has guest curated exhibitions for the Magenta Foundation (Cultivated: New Photography from New England); deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Out of the Box: Photographic Portfolios from the Permanent Collection); Provincetown Art Association and Museum (Traces: Daniel Ranalli, Cape Work 1987-2007); and the Fairfield University Art Museum (13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver’s Connecticut Photographs).
Brown received her PhD in the History of Art & Architecture from Boston University and MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a native of Rochester, NY and the product of a Kodak family.