Elizabeth Gwinn is the Communications Director at The Studio Museum in Harlem. In this role, she leads a broad range of strategies encompassing content production and distribution. Working with a communications team of four and a broad range of Museum departments, she oversees media relations, marketing, and branding; manages print and digital initiatives including the award-winning, biannual Studio magazine, studiomuseum.org and social media; and leads a cross-departmental editorial process to facilitate effective and engaging institutional messaging.
Liz received a MA in Museum Studies from NYU and a BA in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic. In addition to her ever-evolving work at the Studio Museum, where she started as Executive Assistant to Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden in 2006, Liz has worked as a Development Associate at the ICA Boston, Biennial Intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art and held numerous part-time, volunteer, temporary, and intern positions for artists and organizations including Exit Art, Performance Space 122, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Brooklyn Museum, Mierle Laderman Ukeles (artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation), NYU’s Program in Museum Studies, Creative Time, and the City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization. She received the American Association of Museum’s Public Relations and Marketing Committee Fellowship in 2010. Liz enjoys knitting, yoga, travel, and imbibing cleverly-named cocktails at museum restaurants.
