Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art
Vice President, Carnegie Museums

Eric Crosby was appointed the Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art in 2020, and the Vice President of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh in 2022. He first joined Carnegie Museum of Art in 2015 as the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, becoming Senior Curator in 2018 and Interim Director in 2019. Guided by a belief in museums’ potential to facilitate meaningful connections between artists and communities, Crosby is charting a new course for the 125-year-old institution by creating an artistic program that animates local concerns within a broader picture of the world today. Integral to that program is the Carnegie International, one of the world’s most significant surveys of contemporary art and the museum’s flagship exhibition. Under Crosby’s direction, the museum opened the 58th edition of the Carnegie International to critical acclaim in 2022.

Since joining Carnegie Museum of Art, Crosby has sought to advance the museum’s strategic impact through celebrated exhibitions, ambitious acquisitions, dynamic events and educational programs, and award-winning publications. His recently curated exhibitions include Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden (2025); Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery (2025); The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection (2023–2024); and Working Thought (2022). Working Thought, a group exhibition exploring how contemporary artists have engaged with critical issues of labor, class, and economic disparity that have shaped American life past and present. For his research on the project, Crosby was awarded a curatorial fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2018. Crosby has also broadened Carnegie Museum of Art’s reach through strategic partnerships locally and nationally, including co-curating with Colby College Museum of Art, presenting exhibitions such as 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, and expanded the museum’s community-based programming with initiatives such as Inside Out, the museum’s first-ever outdoor event series featuring over two dozen Pittsburgh-based performing artists and arts organizations. He has also left an indelible mark on the museum’s collection presentations by overseeing the institution through the reinstallation of the museum’s postwar and contemporary art galleries with Crossroads: 1945 to Now (ongoing) and its decorative arts and design galleries with Extraordinary Ordinary Things (ongoing). He is also responsible for the museum’s Collection Handbook (2021), highlighting over 200 works from the collection, and recent exhibition catalogues dedicated to Gertrude Abercrombie and the Milton and Sheila Fine Collection, among others.

Prior to joining Carnegie Museum of Art, Crosby was Associate Curator, Visual Arts, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Crosby studied at Wesleyan University (BA) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA).

Deputy Director

Clarissa Morales is the deputy director at Carnegie Museum of Art, a role she began in 2023. Clarissa is responsible for designing and implementing operational infrastructure across the museum and specific projects and initiatives led by the Director’s Office. Clarissa oversees museum teams including Art Preparation and Installation, Collections Information, Conservation, Exhibition Design and Project Management, Finance and Administration, Registration and Archives, and Visitor Museum Services.

Morales joined Carnegie Museum of Art in December 2019 as director of collections and exhibitions management as part of the museum’s Senior Leadership Team. She became the museum’s Acting Chief of Staff in December 2022 before being appointed as Deputy Director in 2023. Prior to her tenure at Carnegie Museum of Art, Morales served as the Director of Collections, Conservation & Exhibitions at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and in project management roles at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Director of Education and Public Programs

Dana Bishop-Root is the director of education and public programs at Carnegie Museum of Art, a role she began in 2021. Through cross-disciplinary partnerships, she leads efforts to create, implement, and evaluate educational programs, activities, and artist projects that connect a multiplicity of publics to the museum as an expansive resource and site for connecting across difference. She joined the museum from the Braddock Carnegie Library Association (BCLA), where she most recently served as Associate Director. During her tenure, Bishop-Root’s leadership spanned efforts across arts education, community engagement, and strategic planning and partnerships. Prior to BCLA, Bishop-Root spent time in New York City as Program Manager for Publicolor, where she developed and implemented creative learning job training curriculum for middle and high school youth. Throughout her career, Bishop-Root has served and continues to serve as an organizational facilitator with a focus on social justice. Bishop-Root is a founding member of the Pittsburgh-based artist collectives General Sisters and Transformazium, which participated in the 2013 Carnegie International through the Art Lending Collection at Braddock Carnegie Library, and has also shown at and in Counterpublic 2023, Tufts Art Gallery, Boston; John Michael Kohler Art Center; Shaboygen; The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; The Jewish Museum, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Japanese American Museum, San Jose; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; and Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. Dana serves on the boards of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, The Wellness Collective, and the Opportunity Fund.

Senior Director of Development

Starr Hackwelder joined Carnegie Museum of Art as the senior director of development in 2023. She is responsible for advancing the museum’s fundraising strategy, in partnership with the director’s office and Carnegie Museums’ development team. She previously served as director of development at The Andy Warhol Museum. Prior to her time at The Warhol, Starr worked in for-profit sales for more than 16 years in industrial sales, luxury hotels, and visual media, most recently serving as manager of North American editorial sales at Alamy, a global leader in stock imagery. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in English Literature and Film Theory.

Director of Finance and Administration

Senior Director of Marketing and Communications

Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History

Stefanie Cedro Mohr joined Carnegie Museums in 2019 and serves as the senior director of marketing and Communications for Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. In this position, Stefanie brings strategic integrated marketing and communications leadership to the museums and has aligned the marketing and communications function to the greater ambitions of the institution. She oversees a team that manages marketing, internal and external communications, media relations, social media, advertising, digital content, web development, e-mail marketing, brand partnerships, public affairs, and crisis and issues management.

Prior to her time at Carnegie Museums, Stefanie lived in the New York City area and held a variety of roles within the consumer goods, retail, and media industries. Most recently, she worked at L’Oréal as Assistant Vice President, Head of Corporate Communications for the Consumer Products Division and provided the President, senior leadership, and multiple brand teams with communications counsel. Prior, she was the Assistant Vice President, Integrated Marketing Communications for L’Oréal Paris, in which she created and implemented long- and short-term campaigns to promote the brand and its products, sponsorships, and philanthropic initiatives. Before joining L’Oréal, Stefanie supervised the public relations team for Glamour Magazine at Condé Nast and led field public relations for Target. She spent the first half of her career at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. on three different global brand teams including Estée Lauder, Jo Malone, and Origins, plus the global corporate communications team. During this time, she supported the launch of Jo Malone and Origins in international markets, managed Origins’ philanthropic platform, Origins Rocks Earth Month, a global concert series benefiting American Forests Global ReLeaf™, and as Director of Global Corporate Communications, directed the 20^th anniversary strategy and execution of the corporation’s largest global philanthropic platform, the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign.

Stefanie earned her MBA from Fordham University and BA in business and BM in music theatre from Baldwin-Wallace University. She is currently an executive committee board director for VisitPITTSBURGH and serves on the development committee for the board of directors of Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh.

Senior Director of Visitor Services

Jason Segreti is the senior director of visitor and museum services at the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, where he leads a team of more than 100 professionals across Admissions, Parking, Group Visits, Program Registration, Volunteer and Internship Programs, and Gallery Associates. He also works closely with departments throughout the museums to ensure smooth daily operations and to continually enhance the visitor experience.

With over 20 years of service at the Carnegie Museums, Jason has held several leadership roles in both Visitor and Museum Services and Security. He joined VMS in 2018 as Manager of Museum Services, became Director in 2019, and was promoted to Senior Director in 2025. His career reflects a deep commitment to operational excellence, visitor engagement, and advancing the museums’ mission to inspire and connect people through art, science, and history.

Director of Curatorial Affairs

John Tain is director of curatorial affairs at Carnegie Museum of Art. John Tain curated Of Mountains and Seas, the third edition of the Lahore Biennale, in 2024. As Head of Research at Asia Art Archive (2017-2023), he played a lead role on projects including AAA’s contribution to documenta fifteen (2022); Art Schools of Asia (2021-22); the exhibition Crafting Communities (2020), devoted to Thailand-based Womanifesto; and MAHASSA (Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, 2019-2020), a collaboration with the Dhaka Art Summit and Cornell University. He serves as an organizer of Asia Forum, a collateral event at the Venice Biennale, and previously worked as a curator at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.