Ariel Pate is Assistant Curator of Photography at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Previously, she was a curatorial assistant in the department of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was responsible for the creation of The Alfred Stieglitz Collection: Photographs site, a website which presents art historical and materials research on the unique set of photographs given by Stieglitz’s estate to the museum. She received a MA in Curatorial Studies from the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule and J.W. Goethe University, in Frankfurt, Germany.