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| John H. Lawrence is Director of Museum Programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection, where his is responsible for planning and implementing museum exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and related activities. He is also the head of Curatorial Collections, havingoversight of pictorial and object holdings numbering |
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in excess of 500,000 items. In his 45-year career at The Historic New Orleans Collection, the New Orleans native has held the positions of Curator of Photographs and Senior Curator. Lawrence has written and lectured widely about aspects of contemporary and historic photography, and the administration and preservation of pictorial collections. He has served as principal or guest curator for dozens of exhibitions on a variety of photographic, artistic, and general historical topics, including the current exhibition Cajun Document: Acadiana, 1973-74. Lawrence chairs the Williams Prize Committee of the Louisiana Historical Association (selection of the best new published work in Louisiana history), and recently concluded a term on the Publications Committee for that organization as well. He was named a member of the LHA executive board in the Spring of 2010. Lawrence was a contributing editor of the New Orleans Art Review from 1983—2003, and for over a decade has provided book reviews to the journal Louisiana History. Since the early 1980s he has served as an evaluator or juror on numerous funding panels pertaining to the arts and humanities. He has served as a member of the Tennessee Williams /New Orleans Literary Festival board since the fall of 2009. In the Fall of 2013, the Arts Council of New Orleans honored him with a Community Arts Award for his work as a museum curator and photographic artist. Lawrence holds degrees in Literature and Art History from Vassar College, and a certificate in museum management from the Getty Leadership Institute, formerly the Museum Management Institute. |
