Lisa RanalloLisa Ranallo is the Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Yellowstone Art Museum. she joined the museum in 2019 as the Registrar and became the Curator of the Permanent Collection in 2022.

She received her bachelor’s degree in studio art from the Evergreen State College, where she studied with the poet and fiber artist Gail Tremblay (Mi’kmaq and Onondaga). Her interest in fiber art also led her to Norway, where she studied weaving at a folk school and Norwegian art history at  the University of Oslo’s International Summer School.

Following undergraduate studies, Lisa spent several years working as a conservation technician, first in textiles at the Minnesota History Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts and later in objects conservation for a private lab, which also maintained and treated public outdoor sculpture throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul.

In 2009 she completed a master’s degree in art history from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota, specializing in 19th and 20th century Nordic art.

Lisa has worked part-time as a framer for the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and as their Registrar for Extended Loans. Additionally, she assisted the Minnesota Museum of American Art, collecting primary source material for the traveling exhibition Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison, and helped to organize several exhibitions for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in 2014.

In 2014-16 she managed the art collection at Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright House and UNESCO World Heritage Site before moving back to Montana. In her current position at the YAM, she has curated: John Giarrizzo: Work from Life Yesterday & Today; Jesse Albrecht and Sean Chandler: The Un-Homecoming of Jimmy Cardell & Uncle Dirty; In Conversation: East Meets West; and Robert Royhl: Voids & Blooms.