Ann Allen has been an adjunct lecturer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1990 and is a member of the Council for the Arts at M.I.T. She received a master’s degree in art history from Boston University and was a gallery speaker at the Wellesley College Museum for many years, specializing in 19th and 20th century art and the history of photography. She was the Co-Curator for the MIT Museum Anniversary Exhibition, Image and Imagination: 150 Years of Photography and The Development of Photography: the Process and the Product, in collaboration with the Polaroid Corporate Archives, 1989.