Recovering a Life's Work with Jessica Roscio & Rachel Passannante

Atelier · Jul 23, 2026 · 36m

Museums rarely build a permanent space around a single artist's life, but doing so can transform how an institution understands its own collection. The Danforth Art Museum's relationship to Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, whose family gifted nearly 400 works to the museum in 2006, has evolved through building a hard-won permanent gallery and a recreated studio space modeled on a single surviving photograph.

In this episode, Jessica Roscio, director and curator at the Danforth Art Museum, and Rachel Passannante, the museum's associate curator, discuss how they built Fuller's permanent gallery after…