The Block is dedicated to advancing the museum field. Learn more about the people, positions, and departments that contribute to The Block.
Staff Professional Activities:
2025-2026
Llewyn Blossfeld, Curatorial Associate
Published "How to {Exhibitions}: How to Center Disabled Performance Art and Artists in Curation," in the book Fwd: Museums Guide To{...}
Presented "Joan E. Biren: propagandist" at Deep South LGBTQ+ Archive Virtual Queer History Teach-in Summer 2025
Lindsay Bosch, Associate Director of Communications, Marketing, and Digital Strategy
Served as Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Connects Academic Museums and Galleries Users Group
Ben Creech, Film/Video/Audio Technician
Premiered new film NO TIME TO THINK: Bob Dylan as Filmmaker at Gallery 198, Brooklyn, NY
Screenings:
AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE: Kurt Heyl premiered at Chicago Underground Film Festival, Harper Theater, wins Best Use of Archive Award, screened at Facets Film Forum and Hyde Park Art Center
MICROBUDGET premiered at Celluloid Now, Gene Siskel Film Center, screened at Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers
PINK PONY NIGHTS premiered at Sweet Void Presents, Facets Film Forum
WRIGHTFILM premiered at Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers
A SUPERCUT OF US, wedding program of home movies and experimental films at Chicago Filmmakers
Corinne Granof, Academic Curator
Presented at IFPDA Foundation Inaugural Curatorial Summit during Print Fair, NYC
Participated in the 2026 Barringtown Town Warming Panel on Major Movements in American Art
Guest Lecturer, In Focus Lecture Series, Evanston Art Center September 14, 2025 Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Friends at The Block
Malia Haines-Stewart, Associate Film Programmer
MS in Leadership in Creative Enterprises
Seminar Participant, Doc's Kingdom 2025
Speaker, "Field Notes from the Public Humanities," 2026 Kaplan Public Humanities Symposium
Speaker, "Bootlegging and Other Performances" at Northwestern
Kirsten Lopez, Curatorial Coordinator, Collections Information and Digital Interpretation
Panelist, Chicago GRADUcon Careers in Museums session
Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Academic Curator for Cinema and Media Arts
Instructor, "Art of the Real: Documentary Film History and Criticism" course, Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University, Winter 2026
Presenter, "FM RF Archival Methods for Video Preservation: A Case Study" art Association of Moving Image Archivists conference, Baltimore, Dec 3-5 2025
Panelist, "The Ethics of Community-Engaged Humanities," Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern, Nov. 7 2025
Presenter, "Rediscovered Documentary/Transgender Subjects, 1970s AND 80s," Visible Evidence XXIX conference, August 2025
Member, Humanities Council, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern
Member, Program Committee, Environmental Policy and Culture
Erin Northington, Susan and Stephen Wilson Associate Director, Campus and Community Education and Engagement
Panelist, "Learning through Doing: Visitor Interactives that Deepen Engagement" on the Block Museum Living Room. AAMG Annual Conference (June 2026)
Guest Lecturer, In Focus Lecture Series, Evanston Art Center – Look Close, See Far: Teaching and Learning at The Block Museum of Art
Panelist, "Creating New Narratives in the Academic Art Museum: Shifting Narrators, Frameworks, and Contexts of Meaning." AAMG Annual Conference (June 2025)
Member, Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Education Committee
Essi Rönkkö, Associate Curator of Collections and Academic Programming
Panelist, "Empowering Creative Decisions: Student Art-Buying at Academic Museums and Galleries," Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Conference 2026
Margaret Sagan, Assistant Director of Public Programs
President, Association of Northwestern University Women
Kyle Stephan, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art