Allison C. Slaby

Allison Slaby is the curator at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in

Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She joined the Reynolda House staff in

September 2005. At Reynolda, she has curated over thirty exhibitions, including

(as co-curator with William L. Coleman, Brandywine Museum), "Andrew Wyeth at

Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth," with an essay in the accompanying

catalogue of the same name published by Rizzoli Electa in 2025. Other major

exhibitions include "Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American

Photorealism" and the Fall 2016 exhibition, "Grant Wood and the American Farm."

In 2016, she published a paper entitled “Grant Wood’s Agrarian Landscapes:

Myth, Memory, and Control” in "Formations of Identity: Society, Politics and

Landscape" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016). Ms. Slaby is a graduate of

Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 2002, she earned her master’s

degree in art history, specializing in American art, from the University of

Massachusetts Amherst. Previously, she held positions at the Mead Art Museum

at Amherst College, at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, at Harvard

University, and at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C.