Sally Metzler-Dunea

Sally Metzler-Dunea *97 ART

Founder and Chairperson, Global COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, & Resilience


Sally Metzler-Dunea *97 earned her doctorate with distinction at Princeton in art and archaeology. Currently, she is founder and chair of the commission to erect the Global COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, and Resilience. Previously, she was director of the art collection at the Union League Club Chicago and a senior fellow and guest curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she curated the international loan exhibition “Bartholomeus Spranger: Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague” and authored the exhibition catalog. She has taught art history courses at Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago. Formerly, she was the director of the Martin D’Arcy Museum of Loyola University Chicago and has held positions at the Field Museum of Natural History, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Alte and Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Germany.