Jillian Kruse
Graduate Curatorial Fellow in Prints and Drawings
Jillian Kruse is the graduate curatorial fellow in prints and drawings. Since joining the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2022 as the Painting and Drawing Society graduate intern, she has contributed to numerous exhibitions, including Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism, Picasso and Paper, and Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community, and guest curated the exhibition Imagination in the Age of Reason. She is concurrently a PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University specializing in 19th-century European works on paper. Her dissertation research focuses on the intersections of experimental and collaborative printmaking with anarchist philosophy and subject matter in the prints of Camille Pissarro.
Before coming to Cleveland, Kruse held curatorial internships and research positions at the National Gallery of Ireland; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. From 2017 to 2019, Kruse served as the Margaret R. Mainwaring Curatorial Fellow in prints, drawings, and photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she managed the museum’s print study room and curated, We the People: American Prints from Between the World Wars.