OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- Two former OKCMOA employees – Dr. Bryn Schockmel and Catherine Shotick – have been named curators at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Schockmel previously worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard Art Museums and the Clark Art Institute. Shotick’s previous experience includes working for the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago.

Schockmel was a research fellow at OKCMOA from fall 2019 through summer 2020. She will focus on the Museum’s collection of European art and works on paper. Shotick served the Museum as an assistant curator from 2013 to 2016. She will concentrate on 19th and 20th century American and modern art.

“We offer a warm welcome back to Bryn and Catherine,” said Michael J. Anderson, Ph.D., OKCMOA president and CEO. “Bryn’s impressive work during her fellowship, culminating in the opening of ‘Art with a History’ on our second floor, has been an incredible asset to the Museum. With her fellowship ending last summer, we knew we had to find a way to bring her on board.”

“Catherine was an integral part of the planning and research for our exciting exhibitions ‘Quilts in Color,’ ‘Sacred Words’ and ‘After the Floating World,’” he continued. “Both Catherine and Bryn are well acquainted with our collection and will be extremely valuable members of our staff. I am thrilled they are back at OKCMOA.”

Schockmel held a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship for Provenance Research at OKCMOA from Sept. 2019 to Aug. 2020. Through that position, she researched the provenance, or ownership history, of 120 works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection and curated the exhibition “Art with a History.”

Schockmel earned her Ph.D. in art history, with a focus on the Italian Renaissance, from Boston University and her master’s in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She has published articles and presented papers at the College Art Association and Renaissance Society of America conferences. She has also taught art history at various universities in Boston.

Shotick started her career in the curatorial department at OKCMOA. She left Oklahoma City in 2016 to spend four years as curator of collections and exhibitions at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she specialized in 19th and 20th century American art. Her most recent project was the curation of the exhibition “Eternal Light: The Sacred Stained-Glass Windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany,” along with the publication of its accompanying catalogue.