Stephanie Stebich
Former Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Stephanie Stebich served as director from 2017-2024. Her priorities included endowing curatorial positions and fellowships, supporting new scholarship, and building the collection with an emphasis on increasing the representation of women and artists of color. Under her leadership, the museum is engaged in a multiyear renewal and reinstallation of its permanent collection galleries, titled “American Voices and Visions,” slated for overall completion in 2026 in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.
