Daniel Finamore, Associate Director–Exhibitions, The Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History

Daniel Finamore has organized more than 15 exhibitions of American and European painting and decorative arts at PEM. In doing so, he has received grants for his research and exhibition projects from a diverse range of funders, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In his role as Associate Director of Exhibitions, Finamore identifies and develops exhibition strategies that broaden PEM’s existing visitorship to include new and more diverse audiences. He served as curator or co-curator of In American Waters: The Sea in American Painting and Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed, and Style (co-organized with the Victoria & Albert Museum).

Finamore holds a B.A. from Vassar College, where he studied anthropology and art history, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University, where he studied archaeology. He has conducted extensive archaeological field research in Belize and elsewhere. Finamore has written more than 40 articles and chapters for academic and popular publications, and is the author and/or editor of six books, including Capturing Poseidon: Photographic Encounters with the Sea, Maritime History as World History and Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea. Finamore is also a director of the Institute for Global Maritime Studies and an honorary member of the Salem Marine Society, and has served on the executive council of the International Congress of Maritime Museums and the U.S. National Committee of the Census of Marine Life. He was previously a director of the Council of American Maritime Museums.

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