Emily Zilber

Emily Zilber is a curator and educator whose work supports modern and contemporary art, craft, and design. As the Director of Curatorial Affairs and Strategic Partnerships at the Wharton Esherick Museum in Malvern, Pennsylvania, she facilitates conversations between contemporary artists and Esherick’s legacy and is the organizer of the current traveling exhibition and publication The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick. Zilber serves on the Board of Artistic Advisors for Philadelphia's Center for Emerging Visual Artists and the Collections Committee of the Museum for Art in Wood. For almost a decade, she was the first Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she built an integrated curatorial program for craft and design within the museum's contemporary art department.