
San Diego, CA. (March 2024) – The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes Kara Felt, Ph.D., as the Lawrence S. Friedman Curator of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art, starting March 27. In her new role, Felt will oversee the institution’s photography and new media collection, and related research and exhibitions for the Museum’s galleries over two sites in Balboa Park, which include those of the Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art. She will also develop and champion the Museum’s touring photographic exhibitions. The Museum’s photography collection contains approximately 15,000 works, with strengths in Modern American, European and Latin American photography, as well as contemporary photography. Highlights include in-depth holdings of work by Berenice Abbott, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Esther…