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Nicole Dezelon
Director of Learning and Public Engagement
Nicole Dezelon has worked at The Warhol for over 20 years. She has spearheaded the museum’s innovative school partnerships, digital engagement initiatives and professional development programs. Dezelon has authored hundreds of pages of online content, from lesson plans to blog posts, as well as articles and multimedia content, sharing the work of The Warhol worldwide. In 2009, she received a Fulbright-Hays award to conduct a Brazil & US Educational Partnership studying the intersections of art and society. She has led international teaching projects in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, and Russia introducing thousands to Andy Warhol’s singular legacy and contemporary artistic practices. In 2019, The Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA) named her Outstanding Museum Art Educator. Dezelon holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Education in art education.
Ben Harrison
Senior Director of Performing Arts and Programming
Ben Harrison has helped lead and grow The Warhol’s performance program since joining the museum in 1997. Harrison develops and implements a broad spectrum of live performance programming. His strengths at strategic partnership collaboration have benefited the museum, as well as other performing arts presenters in the Pittsburgh region, such as the Music on the Edge Series at the University of Pittsburgh, Calliope: Pittsburgh’s Folk Music Society, WYEP Presents, and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. He served as performance consultant for New Hazlett Theater in 2006–07 and was associate curator for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts in 2008. Harrison was lead curator and producer of the commissioned, multi-media performances 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (2008) and Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films (2014) which tour internationally. Harrison has also served as co-producer of the Carnegie Nexus initiative.
Amber Morgan
Director of Collections and Exhibitions
Amber Morgan began her career at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2001, starting as an assistant to the fine arts department before moving to registration. She joined The Warhol in 2007 and has become increasingly responsible for the stewardship of the world’s largest collection of Warhol art and archives and now oversees all aspects of collections and exhibitions for the museum, including conservation, preservation, cataloging and documentation, archives and exhibitions, and the administration of loans. Morgan holds a bachelor of fine arts from Saint Vincent College and a master of library science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Hannah Klemm
Milton Fine Curator of Art
Hannah Klemm is the Milton Fine curator of art at The Andy Warhol Museum.
Previously, Klemm was the curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, the associate curator of modern and contemporary art for the Saint Louis Art Museum and has held a variety of curatorial fellowship positions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.
At the Blanton Museum of Art, Klemm organized exhibitions, commissions, publications and public programs and stewarded the museum’s contemporary collection. Her exhibition, Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art, included digital art that uses coding, data or AI to interact with museum visitors and was covered by The New York Times. As associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Klemm oversaw Currents, a long-running series commissioning new work by living artists and the New Media Series, dedicated to single-channel video. She also co-organized The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century with the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Klemm received a BA in art history and visual arts with a concentration in printmaking from Sarah Lawrence College, a MA in art history from Courtauld Institute of Art and a PhD in art history from the University of Chicago.
Mario R. Rossero
Director
Mario R. Rossero is the director of The Andy Warhol Museum and vice president of Carnegie Museums.
Previously, Rossero was the executive director of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), the leading professional membership organization for visual arts, design and media arts educators.
Before joining NAEA, and after serving a variety of leadership positions in Chicago Public Schools and as the senior program officer for arts education at Pittsburgh Public Schools, he served as senior vice president of education for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
A native of the Pittsburgh region, Rossero began his career as an artist educator at The Warhol and an as art teacher at Shaler Area School District.
Rossero received a BA in art & education from Washington and Jefferson College and an MSEd in supervision and administration in visual arts from a joint program between Bank Street College of Education and Parsons School of Design.
Donald G. Warhola
Vice President of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Donald G. Warhola is the foundation’s liaison to The Andy Warhol Museum, where he works in the education department as a Warhola family historian. He serves as a board member on the foundation’s board of directors as well as chairman of its audit committee. A nephew of Andy Warhol, Warhola is the son of Andy’s middle brother, the late John Warhola. In 1986, after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in computer science and business, Warhola traveled to New York City to work for his uncle to install a network computer system for Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc. Warhola earned an master of arts in social work from the University of Pittsburgh, and he worked in community mental health for 10 years as a child and adolescent therapist. Currently, Warhola works with children who have special mental health needs.
