Join us Thursday, July 23 for our special guest speaker, Natalie Urquhart, who will be talking about the National Gallery Virtual Exhibitions.Natalie Urquhart is the Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. She holds a BA Hons in Art History and a first class MA in Arts Management and has twenty years experience in the cultural sector where she specializes in developing creative strategies, programming and
exhibitions for public sector arts organizations and heritage sites. Urquhart is a leading authority on Caymanian art and has published regular papers on the subject and well as the book Art of the Cayman Islands, the islands’ first formal art history. She has been the recipient of a National Arts and Culture Award (2010) and Heritage Cross (2016), and was the 2011 Young Caymanian Leadership Award recipient– for her work in preserving and developing Caymanian culture. Ms Urquhart has also served as a President of the Museums Association of the Caribbean since 2017; and in this capacity works as an international expert on Caribbean museology. This currently involves presenting on the status of Caribbean museums in response to the pandemic at organizations like UNESCO, the African American Association of Museums, and the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean Foundation.
exhibitions for public sector arts organizations and heritage sites. Urquhart is a leading authority on Caymanian art and has published regular papers on the subject and well as the book Art of the Cayman Islands, the islands’ first formal art history. She has been the recipient of a National Arts and Culture Award (2010) and Heritage Cross (2016), and was the 2011 Young Caymanian Leadership Award recipient– for her work in preserving and developing Caymanian culture. Ms Urquhart has also served as a President of the Museums Association of the Caribbean since 2017; and in this capacity works as an international expert on Caribbean museology. This currently involves presenting on the status of Caribbean museums in response to the pandemic at organizations like UNESCO, the African American Association of Museums, and the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean Foundation.