Allison Cummings, Senior Registrar, Civic Art Collection

Allison Cummings serves as the Senior Registrar for the Civic Art Collection, bringing 11 years’ experience in art registration and collections management within modern and contemporary art museums. She oversees the care and maintenance of the 3,500 artworks in San Francisco’s collection, which includes public monuments and murals, contemporary public art installations, and a significant portable collection of paintings, works on paper, ceramics and jewelry. In addition to her work with public art, Ms. Cummings maintains a particular interest in the care of contemporary and ephemeral materials, and was a founding member of Media Matters, a multi-institutional consortium working towards defining best practices for the care of time-based media art. Formerly with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, she joined the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2007. She holds degrees in Art History and Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.