Roger Dell

Roger Dell has been curator of gallery education at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, director of education at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, director of education at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts, and is currently is director of education at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine. Dell has created innovative art museum education programs for students and adults and has lectured widely on art history, arts education and museums. In Chicago, Dell was one of the managers who built a new $60 million Museum of Contemporary Art, overseeing the design and programming of the education space. In Fitchburg, Dell was the lead person in the creation of the Museum Partnership School, an arts magnet middle school within the Fitchburg Art Museum and an adjacent school building. This unique collaboration between a public school system and a private art museum afforded students the opportunity to take their classes in an art museum, where artworks were used as texts, and art was integrated into the curriculum of each and every subject.