Shirley Reiff Howarth, the Director of The Humanities Exchange, is an art historian, and former museum director and curator who has worked with museums for over 35 years. With an MA degree in Art History from Penn State University, she has documented the phenomenon of art collections in business and the workplace, and how this trend has changed and evolved during the past decades.As a former museum director and curator for 15 years, in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida, she also has first-hand insight into the unique world of museums and their mission of education. She continues to curate exhibitions that have traveled in the United States, Europe and Japan, that have included Dufy by Design: the Fabric Designs of Raoul Dufy; C. Paul Jennewein, Sculptor; Marcel Breuer: Concrete and the Cross; A Theatre of Color: Costume Designs for the Black Theatre; and two current exhibitions: What Color is Your Dream with works from the Landfill Art Collection, and an upcoming exhibition in Japan during the 2020 Olympics about corporate art collections around the world. She was adjunct professor at St Leo College for seven years, teaching courses in the History of Photography, Arts Management and Art History.