Keidra Daniels Navaroli is an instructor in art history for the School of Visual Arts and Design. For over eighteen years, her work in arts management, scholarship, and curation, has focused on addressing how museums broadly (and the medium of textiles specifically) can be utilized to question cultural divisions, foster intergenerational dialogue, and enhance the understanding of traditionally-underrepresented communities of practice.
Keidra received a Ph.D. in Texts and Technology (with a concentration in Public History) from UCF, an M.A. in Art History from Florida State University, and a B.A. in Art History from the University of Florida. She completed internships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sotheby’s Auction House in New York and is an alumna of the Museum (Getty) Leadership Institute’s NextGen Program. Her award winning-curatorial work has been featured in Forbes, Culture Type, and numerous media outlets. In 2024, Keidra was inducted into UCF's Order of Pegasus, the university's highest academic honor. Currently, she serves on the editorial board for Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art as well as the boards of the Mennello Museum of American Art, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, and the Surface Design Association.