Phoenix Art Museum has two new curators.

Colin Pearson is the institution’s new Curator for Asian Art and Dr. JoAnna Reyes is the new Adjunct Curator for Art of the Americas.

Reyes’ role is a collaborative appointment between Phoenix Art Museum and the School of Art in Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. In their respective roles, Pearson will develop exhibitions that draw from and highlight the museum’s expansive Asian art collection, and Reyes will curate exhibitions across the museum’s American, Western American, Latin American, and Spanish Colonial art collections.

Both Pearson and Reyes assume their roles effective immediately, the museum announced Wednesday.

“Both Colin and JoAnna have deep expertise and significant experience within their respective fields and bring fresh, innovative perspectives to the presentation of the PhxArt Collection’s rich holdings,” Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO, shared in a press release.

Pearson assumes his new role with more than a decade of experience curating collections of Asian artworks, ceramics, craft items, musical instruments, and ethnographic artifacts, with expertise on the effects of maritime and Silk Road trade routes on the arts of Tibet, China, and India. He previously served as the museum’s adjunct curator of Asian art.

Reyes’ collaborative appointment as the adjunct curator for Art of the Americas at Phoenix Art Museum and assistant professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Arizona State University deepens the collaboration between the museum and one of the largest comprehensive arts programs at a public research university in the U.S. In her new role she will curate exhibitions across the museum’s American, Western American, Latin American, and Spanish Colonial art collections.

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