Lissa Cramer is the Director of the Boston University Art Galleries. She received her MS in Arts Administration from Boston University and a BA in Art History from the University of Kansas. She has previously worked for The Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, and Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, MA.
 

Lissa Cramer is an experienced gallery director with a demonstrated history of executing distinguished and forward-thinking exhibitions. Cramer is a creative thinker that enjoys collaborating and building welcoming and inclusive environments. Highly skilled in exhibition management and budgeting, collections care, registration, and installation with practice working in non-profit arts institutions of different ranges and financial capacities—Lissa has honed these abilities through working with artists, curators, commercial galleries, university faculty, and students.
 

Cramer has achieved success with multiple exhibitions and publications throughout her career, including Cey Adams, Departure, Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection, and Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla (Not From Here, Not From There.) Cramer also teaches Modern Art 1860-1970 and Managing Visual Arts at the Boston University MET College.