Oklahoma City Museum of Art names Roja Najafi curator
(Artdaily.org)

Roja Najafi has been named curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Najafi comes to Oklahoma City from Texas, where she taught modern and contemporary art at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin Community College, and Rice University, among other institutions and was a curator at the Strake Jesuit Art Museum. `Roja`s strong background in modern and contemporary art and impressive academic accomplishments make her a perfect fit for our team,` said Michael J. Anderson, Ph.D., director of curatorial affairs. `Roja will be curating our spring exhibition, `The New Art: A Controversial Collection 50 Years Later,` and I am looking forward to seeing what new scholarship she develops as she researches this important OKCMOA collection. We are glad to have Roja in Oklahoma City.` As curator at the Strake Jesuit Art Museum, Najafi curated