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 nearly 40 years. She was Adjunct Professor at St Leo College for seven years, teaching courses in the History of Photography, Arts Management and Art History.Founded in 1981, The Humanities Exchange is devoted to encouraging understanding and mutual respect among cultures around the world through international exchange and the development and touring of museum exhibitions. The Humanities Exchange is a non-profit organization that assists a worldwide audience of museums, art centers, universities, libraries, corporations, foundations and other cultural organizations. The fields of interest include the visual arts, history, science - all of the humanities disciplines.The Humanities Exchange's mission is to advise and work with public and private institutions and individuals in Europe, North America and Asia, and to act as a liaison in the coordination of high quality exhibitions for tour to non-profit cultural and educational institutions.With an MA degree in Art History from Penn State University, and 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, Canada, 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: Let's Hit the Road Again, with works from the Landfill Art Collection, and an upcoming exhibition in Japan about corporate art collections around the world.