Kitty McManus Zurko has been the curator at The College of Wooster Art Museum since 1989, and director/curator since 2000. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (sculpture) and art education from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in 1981, and a master’s degree in art history from Kent State University in 2002. McManus Zurko played an advisory role in the renovation and re-adaptation of The College of Wooster’s Ebert Art Center completed in 1997.

McManus Zurko’s past curatorial projects include facilitating, curating or co-curating over 70 exhibitions since 1985. Exhibitions facilitated by McManus Zurko include one-person exhibitions such as: William Kentridge Prints (organized by the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA) 2005; Lorna Simpson (organized by The College of Wooster Art Museum) 2004; and Ken Aptekar: Painting Between the Lines, 1990–2000 (organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO), 2002. She curated a one-person exhibition of Ann Hamilton’s work in 2002, the group exhibition Drawing Narrative in 2005, and one-person exhibitions of Jim Campbell and Hiraki Sawa, both in 2006.

McManus Zurko served on the board of the Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH, from 2001–2003, and as a grant panelist and panel facilitator at the Ohio Arts Council numerous times since 1993. She was a guest curator for the 2007 Ohio Arts Council’s exhibition Celebration of Creativity: OAC Fellowships 1980–2005.