Nonie Gadsden

Senior Curator

Nonie Gadsden is the Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where she is responsible for a wide range of artwork including decorative arts and sculpture from North, Central and South America, from ancient times through the 20^th century. Her recent work includes a leadership role in reimagining of the 18^th-century galleries in the MFA’s Art of the Americas Wing to mark the 250^th anniversary of the nation (2026), curating the exhibition “Toshiko Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction” (2023-24), serving as lead curator for “Women Take the Floor” (2019-2021); developing new 20^th century galleries, including “Art and Jazz” and “Folk Meets Modernism” (opened 2022); and a publication based on the MFA’s collection of American modern design, America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer (2022). Gadsden received her BA in American Studies from Yale College and her MA in Early American Culture from the Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware.