Kristen Collins Email Address

Curator of Manuscripts

The J. Paul Getty Museum collects in seven distinct areas, including Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The Museum's mission is to make the collection meaningful and attractive to a broad audience by presenting and interpreting the works of art through educational programs, special exhibitions, publications, conservation, and research.

• Twenty years of curatorial work at the J. Paul Getty Museum, twenty-eight years in the field. • Experience managing complex international curatorial projects. • Expertise in producing a high volume of exhibitions annually, developing related programming and media presentations, conducting and overseeing collections research, care and administration. • Supervision of junior staff on exhibitions and collections-related projects. • Donor cultivation and fundraising for departmental projects. • Commitment to carrying diversity, inclusion, equity, and access initiatives into my curatorial practice. • Ph.D. in art history from the University of Texas at Austin with a specialty in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, M.A. from Williams College Graduate Program with emphasis on medieval, modern and contemporary German art, and the history of prints.