National Gallery of Art Announces C. D. Dickerson III as Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

As dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center), C. D. Dickerson will join the National Gallery’s executive leadership team when he assumes the role on June 1. He will be responsible for guiding and advancing the Center’s scholarship in art, art history, and related fields through its acclaimed fellowship programs, convenings, publications, and research initiatives.

Dickerson has been with the National Gallery since 2015, serving most recently as senior curator of European and American art and head of sculpture and decorative arts. He has focused his curatorial and accompanying academic work—including the exhibitions "Canova: Sketching in Clay" and "Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain"—on making the complexities of art history accessible to the public in imaginative ways and developing groundbreaking scholarship, furthering the National Gallery’s mission as the nation’s art museum.