Author: Jan Stuart

Jan Stuart is the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler, where she recently curated the exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912 in 2019. She was head of the Asian art department at the British Museum from 2006 to 2014. Jan began her career after holding a Mellon Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chinese art, language, and culture.