Please join us for a Art History Centennial panel discussion featuring distinguished alumni Marcela Guerrero, Linde B. Lehtinen, and Drew Sawyer moderated by Katherine Alcauskas, Chazen Museum of Art and Professor Jill Casid.
Marcela Guerrero (Ph.D. 2015) is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2026, Guerrero, along with Drew Sawyer, will curate the eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States. Most recently, she co-curated with Angelica Arbelaez “Ilana Savdie: Radical Contractions.” At the Whitney, Guerrero also curated “no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria” and “Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy” in 2022-23, among other exhibitions.
Linde B. Lehtinen is responsible for The Huntington Library’s vast photography collection of nearly one million images. She received her B.A. in art history from the University of Chicago and M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2014) in art history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has worked for several museums, including The Getty, the Skirball Cultural Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). She is currently co-curating exhibitions which open in 2026 for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence entitled “This Land Is…” and a series of California-based work by Chicana photographer Laura Aguilar recently acquired by The Huntington.
Drew Sawyer received a B.A. in Art History and Economics at UW Madison (2005) and a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University (2015). He is currently the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has previously held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His recent curatorial projects include “Mark Armijo Mcknight: Decreation,” “Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines,” “Suneil Sanzgiri: Here the Earth Grows Gold,” and “Jimmy DeSana: Submission.”
