Forward Together Forum:

Dr. Souffrant is a museum educator, artist-scholar and independent cultural curator who has worked across academia and the non-profit sector in the pursuit of arts-based social justice and public education. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Global/Non-Western Art History at Illinois State University, where she teaches courses at the intersection of art history, African diasporic culture, and museum studies. She was also Visiting Assistant Professor of Arts of Africa and the Black Atlantic at Oberlin College, in Ohio. Souffrant received her PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University in June 2017.

Souffrant previously worked at the Milwaukee Art Museum, from 2015 to 2018, as the Manager of School and Teacher Programs. She developed and taught curricula that connected students with art in the Museum’s collection and revitalized the training and educational materials for the Museum’s Haitian art collection—one of the oldest and largest outside of Haiti. Additionally, as both an educator and practicing artist, Souffrant worked with Milwaukee-area performing arts organizations to curate programs that combined dance, theater and the visual arts.

Before the Milwaukee Art Museum, Souffrant was at the Haitian American Museum of Chicago as its cultural liaison, and had interned at the Field Museum in Chicago. She has been a guest instructor at the Chipstone Foundation, and the March on Milwaukee 50th Anniversary coordinating committee is among the committees and boards in Milwaukee and Chicago on which she has served.

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