Angie Dodson

At Johns Hopkins, Angie Dodson is a lecturer in the MA in Museum Studies program and brings more than 35 years of museum experience where she has provided key resources and actionable recommendations for students, practitioners, and cultural organizations seeking to strengthen their value in and impact on the communities and audiences they serve. Through her roles as a museum educator, chief operating officer, and museum director in a variety of settings – art museum, history center, historic house, estate museum – Dodson has worked to create opportunities that welcome any who look to art, history, and cultural heritage as they seek their home in the world.

Dodson has devoted her career to big-picture thinking and day-to-day activities, both set against the backdrop of an always-rapidly changing national and global landscape as well as an increasingly more-crowded marketplace of opportunities for life learning, individual and collective wellbeing, and civic engagement. She served as the director of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (2018-2023), as Director of Learning & Engagement and Chief Operating Officer at the Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens (1999-2018), as the Curator of Education at The Architects Foundation at The Octagon (1997-99) and as Curator of Education at the Levine Museum of the New South (1995-96). Dodson has served as a program peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums. She is a past member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Wallace Center for Arts and Reconciliation.

A native of North Carolina, Dodson holds a BA in Art History from the University of Florida, an MA in Teaching/Museum Education from The George Washington University, and a certificate from the Getty Museum Leadership Institute.