Kristin Louise Spangenberg has been the curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Cincinnati Art Museum since 1971. She has more than 40 years of experience in her field, having previously served as assistant curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum and assistant curator of graphic arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Spangenberg grew up in Palo Alto and studied Latin American history at UC Santa Barbara and art at San Francisco Art Institute, where her painting instructor was Richard Diebenkorn. She earned a B.A. in theater design from the University of California, Davis, and an M.A. master’s degree from the University of Michigan. A member of the Print Council of America and the Circus Historical Society, Spangenberg has lectured on many topics, including talks on Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Duveneck. She has also written catalogues for many of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s exhibitions on prints, drawings and photographs. Most recently she has contributed to and edited The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company (2011).