Jennifer-Navva Milliken

Jennifer-Navva Milliken is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum for Art in Wood. Throughout her international career, she has curated exhibitions for museums, galleries, and unconventional spaces. In her current position, she has worked to enfold contemporary issues into the Museum’s wood-focused approach. Milliken studied for her BA in Art History at Western Washington University and her MA in Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Previous to her current position, she has worked as an embedded museum curator, as well as an independent curator and the founder of a cross-disciplinary art space. Her exhibitions have been presented in museums, art fairs, galleries, and unconventional spaces, and her writings have been included in exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and publications that investigate and critique the intersecting fields of art, craft, and design.

Topics of strength (for mentoring sessions):

• Finding and applying to residencies and grants, and open calls for exhibitions and other opportunities
• Gender and identity in your craft
• Mentoring for a career in the arts
• Setting up an exhibition