Insights Tour: For the Future

Experience the special exhibition "For the Future" through the eyes of Alisa McCusker, senior curator at the UMFA.
About this Event

Want to experience works of art through the unique lense of the people who see it everyday? Insights Tours at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts provide you with the perspectives of those who know these works of art in unique ways! These lunch-hour tours are a perfect midday break, and you can even stop by the Museum Café for a bite to eat!

Explore the special exhibition through the eyes of Museum staff members. This 45-minute tour will provide insights into the works of art on view, their unique histories, and the ways the Museum stewards them.

This free tour will be led by Alisa McCusker, senior curator at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts!

American art encompasses an extraordinary range of creative expression, including Indigenous practices dating back thousands of years, traditional modes of painting and sculpting of European origin, as well as modern and contemporary forms engaged on the global stage. Alisa McCusker, Curator of European and American Art, leads a tour of some of the UMFA’s most noteworthy art acquisitions in the past 25 years that have broadened and deepened the Museum’s representation of the richness of American history, culture, and life.

Installation view of For the Future: Collecting at the UMFA 2001–2026, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 2026.

Alisa McCusker, PhD, is Senior Curator and Curator of European and American Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. She is a specialist in Renaissance art and works on paper and has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions on a range of topics, including on medieval and early modern book illustration, Japanese woodblock prints, American Regionalism, and contemporary art in the American West. Previously she served as Curator of European and American Art at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri. She holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts in art history and museum studies from the joint program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She received a Fulbright full-year fellowship to Germany for her dissertation research.