Kat Goffnett

Image courtesy of Kat Goffnett. 

Kat Goffnett is the Associate Curator of Collections at Cranbrook Art Museum. She received her  BA from Alma College and her Master’s in art history from Wayne State University, where she  specialized in photographic theory. She has taught art history at Wayne State University and  West Shore Community College. Prior to Cranbrook, she worked for various art organizations  including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University Galleries, and the University Art  Collection. Her recent curatorial projects at Cranbrook include With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook  Academy of Art Since 1932 (2021), Homebody (2022), Bakpak Durden: The Eye of Horus (2022- 23), and Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions (2023), and the upcoming How We Make the Planet  Move: The Detroit Collection, Part I (2024). She also recently curated Elevation: Kaneko and  Contemporary Ceramics (2023) at Wayne State University’s Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery.