The Mashrabiya Project: Ancient Architectures and Contemporary Ideas Across the Islamic World

About Jennifer-Navva Milliken

Jennifer-Navva Milliken is the executive leader of the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia and is responsible for creating and executing the exhibition schedule facilitating the annual Windgate Residency program maintaining the integrity of the museum collection and research library as well as overseeing the Museums publishing and documentation activities. She serves on the board of the Furniture Society and is a member of the International Council of Museums. Before coming to the Museum in May 2018 she worked as an independent curator and consultant following her tenure as the Curator of Craft and Design and the interim curatorial director at the Bellevue Arts Museum. Before joining BAM she established INTER ALIA projects a curatorial enterprise based in Tel Aviv Israel and New York NY. INTER ALIA fostered dialogues surrounding contemporary art studio craft design and new media through site-specific pop-up exhibitions gallery programming writing and advocacy for artists practicing in these fields. Milliken has lived in several locales including Jerusalem New York Seoul and Tel Aviv. In addition to her time at BAM she has been an embedded staff member at a number of cultural institutions and museums among them the Museum of Arts & Design (MAD) New York and The Israel Museum Jerusalem.