Staff Profile

Jessica Ficken is the assistant curator of the collection in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, which comprises works of art from about 1900 to the present. She conducts collections research, prepares and coordinates permanent collections installations, facilitates new acquisitions and loans, collaborates with faculty, and supports curricular gallery projects and special exhibitions. Ficken specializes in modern and contemporary printmaking, and she has helped organize several contemporary art exhibitions, including, most recently, Latoya M. Hobbs: It’s Time (2024), Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums (2022–25), and Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities (2022).