Temple University

Megan Voeller (they/she) is an educator, curator and writer whose work focuses on critical intersections of contemporary art and health.  

As Director of Humanities at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Megan works collaboratively with colleagues and students to infuse the arts and humanities into health professions education. They direct medical humanities programs at Sidney Kimmel Medical College—approximately twenty selective courses and an independent research concentration—as well as co-curricular, public, and patient-centered programming including an annual artist-in-residence program with Jefferson Health clinical sites. Previously, Megan was Curator and Art in Health Program Director at the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida’s Institute for Research in Art.  

Recent projects include Tangles in Time (2019), a public storytelling performance about living with dementia told from the perspectives of caregivers, family members, patients and clinicians, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and Back and Song (2019) with Philadelphia Contemporary. Megan is currently a visiting curator for Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Porch Light Program, which is producing a two-year public art project, We Here, with artist Roberto Lugo in Kensington during 2023-2024.  

Megan maintains a practice as an art critic and journalist and has written more than 250 exhibition reviews and feature stories about art for publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Hyperallergic, and Creative Loafing. They are a former co-host and freelance producer for WEDU Arts Plus, a public television program produced by PBS affiliate WEDU.  

MA, Art History, University of South Florida, 2012 
MA, Media Studies, The New School, 2005 
BA, Studio Art with Honors, Williams College, 2001 

Advisor: Alpesh Patel, PhD