Evelyn Tauben

Evelyn Tauben is an independent curator, artistic producer and writer. With an MA in Art History from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, she has worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Museum of American History. She was the first Head of Programs and Exhibitions at Toronto’s Koffler Centre of the Arts, Canada’s only multi-disciplinary Jewish arts and culture centre. Previously, she founded Youngish & Yiddish in Philadelphia and established the Emet Gallery in Montreal. Evelyn was a participant in the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 2012 International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship in Warsaw. Her essay on expressions of Jewish identity within the work of women artists and graphic novels is forthcoming in the book, Graphic Details (McFarland, 2013).