Lisa Small is an American art historian and museum curator. She is a curator of Exhibitions at the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

, and most widely known for her 2014 blockbuster exhibition,

Killer Heels Killer Heals (Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe) was a blockbuster exhibition that ran at the Brooklyn Museum from September 10, 2014 – March 1, 2015. The exhibition displayed high-heeled footwear, for men and women, as art objects. ...

. Small earned her B.A. from B.A. from

Colgate University Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theologi ...

, the M.A. and M.Phil from

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven Upper divis ...

in Art History, and an M.A. in Arts Administration from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. She worked as a curator at the Dahesh Museum of Art and as Curator of Exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts before moving to the Brooklyn.

Books

*''Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe'' Prestel, 2014 (3791353802)

References

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