Reed Haslach

Assistant Curator

Reed Haslach has worked with the National Building Museum since 2003, during which time she has coordinated several exhibitions including Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century (2007); The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design (2006-2007); and Tools of the Imagination: Drawing Tools and Technologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (2005).

In addition to curatorial and research activities related to exhibitions, Haslach managed the publication of the Tools of the Imagination exhibition book and has written for the Museum's quarterly publication Blueprints. She served as a consulting curator for the Museum's Investigating Where We Live youth outreach education program in 2006 and 2007, and presented at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums annual Building Museums™ symposium in 2007.

Haslach has previously held positions with the Jay I. Kislak Foundation, Miami, Florida; ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida; and Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, where she worked with curator Richard Torchia in the presentation of noted exhibitions and installations including Olafur Eliasson: Your colour memory (2004-2005); and Open (2004), which was on view in conjunction with The Big Nothing, a city-wide initiative of projects organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.  She also held a graduate internship with the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.

Haslach earned a Master of Arts degree in Museum Studies, with an academic concentration in visual culture, from The George Washington University.  Her Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art is from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Haslach also studied at Fergusson College in Pune, Maharashtra, India, during which time she conducted research on women's sacred and domestic arts, which was published by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest in 1997.