Emily Le
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Emily Le is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California (USC) receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Archaeology. Emily is a first-generation college student and child of Vietnamese immigrants. As her background did not facilitate early exposure to art history or museums, she is now impassioned to bring about greater accessibility and diversity to spaces of traditional cultural privilege. At USC she completed an honors thesis exploring the collecting histories of Southeast Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Norton Simon Museum of Art, examining the ways in which collecting—as stipulated by bureaucratic processes, the art market, donors, and personal notions of taste and value—shapes public perceptions of Southeast Asia. Emily is currently completing her second year of the fellowship at LACMA in the European Painting and Sculpture with curatorial mentors Leah Lehmbeck, Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture and American Art, and Diva Zumaya, Assistant Curator of European Painting and Sculpture.
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