Deborah Moore Sorensen

Curatorial Associate

Phone: x3410
Email: dsorensen@nbm.org

Deborah Sorensen is a curatorial associate at the National Building Museum. Since starting at the National Building Museum in October 2002, Sorensen has assisted on several National Building Museum exhibitions. She served as coordinating curator on Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards, exhibition project manager for Washington: Symbol and City, and curatorial associate for David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture and Designing the World of Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s (scheduled to open in 2009).

Sorensen has also worked on several public programs at the National Building Museum. She was co-creator and program curator for the 2005 Reel Architecture Film Series, and program curator for “Bachelors, Secretaries & Spies: Mid-century Modern Style in American Film,” in February 2008.

Before coming to the Museum, Sorensen served as the Archives Manager for Towers Productions, Inc. and Art Department Researcher at Big Feats Productions (Wishbone children's program). Sorensen has also volunteered for the Third Annual SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, in Silver Spring, MD (June 2005), and was a Film Selection Committee member for the Fourth Annual Takoma Park Film Festival, Takoma Park, MD (November 2005).

Her research interests include film and the built environment, the history of production design and location photography, spatial experience of museum exhibitions and the effect of physical design on learning, museum media, and interwar and Depression-era film and design.

Sorensen earned her M.A. in Museum Studies from The George Washington University, and her B.A. in Liberal Arts with a focus on film from Columbia College.