Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and Professor of Art History at Scripps College
Mary MacNaughton is Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and Associate Professor of Art History at Scripps. In 2001 she received the Southern California ArtTable Distinguished Women in the Arts Award. In 1991 she received an National Endowment for the Arts Museum Professional Grants, and in 2000 a Getty Curatorial Fellowship to support writing a monograph entitled States of Mind: The Art of Adolph Gottlieb. She has also written exhibition catalogues: Matter and Matrix: Kris Cox, Amy Ellingson, Elizabeth Turk, and Jane Park Wells (2003), In the Mind’s Sky: Intersections of Art and Science (2000), Alison and Lezley Saar (2000), Ceramic Annual 2000 (2000), Susan Hertel: A Retrospective (1997), Body Mind, and Spirit (1995), Revolution in Clay: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics (1994), and Paul Soldner: A Retrospective (1991). In the joint art history program of Scripps and Pomona Colleges, Professor MacNaughton teaches courses in 20th- century European and American art. From 1996-2000, she was President of the Theta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Scripps, and from 1999-2001 President of ArtTable, a national organization of women in the visual arts.