Janine Yorimoto Boldt has been named new curator of American art at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, effective Jan. 2, 2026.
Boldt comes to the Palmer Museum in the College of Arts and Architecture having served as associate curator of American art and collection reinstallation project associate at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2021. She earned doctoral and master's degrees in American Studies from William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia; and a bachelor's degree in history and art history from Michigan State University in East Lansing. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation postdoctoral curatorial fellow at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia from July 2018 through December 2020. Boldt has also secured fellowships with the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Virginia Historical Society, Winterthur Museum and Library, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
"We are so pleased to welcome Janine to the Palmer staff," said Interim Director Joyce Robinson. "Her considerable scholarship is informed by an interdisciplinary background and a commitment to using art to creatively tell inclusive histories."
Boldt has curated exhibitions for the American Philosophical Society, the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame, and the Chazen, including serving on the curatorial team behind the critically acclaimed "re:mancipation" project in 2023.
