Roger Dell

Roger Dell has been curator of gallery education at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and director of education at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Currently, he is director of education at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Dell has created innovative art museum education programs for students and adults and has lectured widely on art history, education, and museums.

In Chicago, Dell was one of the managers who built the $60 million new Museum of Contemporary Art, overseeing the design and programming of the education space. In Fitchburg, Dell has helped create the Museum Partnership School, an arts magnet middle school within the Fitchburg Art Museum and an adjacent school building. This unique collaboration between a public school system and a private art museum has afforded students the opportunity to take their classes in the galleries of an art museum, where artworks are used as texts, and the arts are integrated into the curriculum of each discipline. In 2002, the Museum Partnership School was designated a Lincoln Center Institute Focus School, bringing a wide array of dance, music, theater, and visual arts expertise to the School. While working in museums, Dell has taught at the university level in Hawaii, Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts.