January Parkos Arnall

January Parkos Arnall is a strategic museum leader and curator focused on operational and artistic impact in the culture sector. Before joining Compound as Executive Director, she was most recently Director, Public Programs and Creative Practice at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, where she was tasked with delivering initiatives that connect people to one another and the world around them. Prior to the Lucas Museum, Parkos Arnall was Curator and head of the Performance and Public Practice department at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. At the MCA, she oversaw The Commons, a site for artistic and civic engagement, and with her department, spearheaded hundreds of talks, programs, and performances, as well as the museum’s partnership and engagement portfolio. Before the MCA, she was on the curatorial team at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she focused on Public Engagement and facilitated the Artist Council, bringing the voices of living artists into the museum’s strategic and programmatic planning. Parkos Arnall holds a PhD in cultural studies and museum theory from Claremont Graduate University, an MBA from the University of Southern California, an MFA from Temple University, Tyler School of Art, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.