Faculty Host

Lynn Marsden-Atlass

Since 2008 Lynn Marsden-Atlass is the Executive Director of the Arthur Ross Gallery (ARG) and also University Curator of the University of Pennsylvania Art Collection. Previously, Marsden-Atlass served as the senior curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and, before coming to Philadelphia, she was the Curator of American and Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Associate Director and Registrar at the Colby College Museum of Art. Marsden-Atlass was an art history professor and director of the Consortium of Colleges Abroad for ten years in Paris, France. In 1992-3 she was a visiting professor in the Department d’Anglais at the Université de Caen and Director of Colby-in-Caen. From 2008-2016 she served on the Board of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, and, since 1998, she is an IMLS Museum Assessment surveyor and an AAM Accreditation Reviewer. Marsden-Atlass earned an M.A. in the History of Art from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in the History of Art from Lake Forest College. She has served as a faculty host for Penn Alumni Travel since 2014. In 2016 she was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

As of March 13, 2020, Penn faculty and staff members are prohibited from participating in University-related travel. We will confirm the faculty host’s participation in the tour upon receiving updated policy information from the University.