Mills, Josephine

Josephine Mills is the Director/Curator of the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and a Professor in the Dept of Art at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. She has worked as a curator and public programmer in art galleries and artist-run centres in Saskatoon and Vancouver. Mills has a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University, Montréal and is a graduate of the Museum Leadership Institute at the Getty Center. Her research interests focus on the relationship between art and concepts of public in Canada with specific attention to issues involved with public engagement for art galleries and within artist's practices. Mills is organizing the exhibitions and outreach for Mootookakio'ssin - a project to create detailed digital images of historical Blackfoot objects housed in British museums in order to connect people living on traditional Blackfoot territory with the stories that these objects can tell. Mills is currently the Past President of the University and College Art Gallery Association of Canada / L'Association Canadienne des galleries d'art universitaires et collégiales and is a past President of the Canadian Art Museum Directors' Organization / Organisation des Directeurs des Musées d'Art du Canada.