Brian Young
Art Gallery Director
College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education
School of Art and Design
- Expertise:
- Art
Brian Young Young serves as the art gallery director for the School of Art and Design. He joined UA Little Rock from the University of Central Arkansas, where he served as director of the Baum Gallery from 2016 to 2024. He made his first move to Arkansas in 1997, when he served as curator of art and drawings for the Arkansas Arts Center, which is now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, until 2006.
Young has also worked as the curator of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, curator of Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, senior curator at the University of Maryland University College, and curator of cultural properties at John Hopkins Medical Institutions.
Young, who is a native of Detroit, Michigan, earned his bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in art history from Ohio State University, as well as a certificate in art appraisal studies from New York University.
He has also served as an adjunct instructor, teaching classes at Ohio State University, Ohio Dominican University, Salisbury University, University of Maryland University College, and UCA. He is also a member of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries and the Professional Appraisers Round Table and regularly serves as a juror for art competitions.