Shannon Price is an art, design, and fashion curator, historian, and educator with extensive leadership experience within cultural and academic institutions. Shannon recently moved back to her hometown of Oakland, CA after 20 years in New York City where her most recent position was at Parsons/The New School where she served as the Director of External Partnerships and Cultural Affairs. She developed global innovative partnerships in private and non-profit sectors aligned with the mission of education, driven by social justice and sustainability. Prior to that, Shannon worked through multiple roles at the Pratt Institute: Acting Assistant Dean of the School of Design and Assistant Chair and Associate Professor in the Fashion Department. Before entering education, Shannon spent over a decade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an Associate Research Curator in The Costume Institute where she collaborated with curators on annual blockbuster exhibitions and related publications. As part of her role there, she enriched the college and high school public programming, and elevated overall departmental educational collaborations, in pursuit of more inclusivity socioeconomically and accessibility to people with disabilities. Shannon is currently the Dean of Art & Design at West Valley College in Silicon Valley and is passionate about ensuring that education for creatives is welcoming and accessible to everyone. In this episode, we chat accessible education, sustainability in design, working with Andrew Bolton on the Alexander McQueen show, this great interview with Fashion educator, Kim Jenkins (for The Fashion Studies Journal), and having the courage to forge a career path tailored to your passions and beliefs.
