Phil Archer

Phil Archer attended Wake Forest University and returned for a Masters in Business Administration in 2006. He was Director of Public Programs at Reynolda House Museum of American Art from 2002 to 2015. In 2002-2003 Archer acted as representative during the Museum's first major expansion and co-directed the Exhibit, Design and Interpretation Project, including the restoration of the historic house and the creation of associated semi-permanent exhibits, audio tour, orientation video, logo, and signage. In 2010 he was named one of 40 Leaders Under 40 by The Business Journal. In 2012 he developed a companion exhibition with the Enrichment Center received the Arts Knowledge-Sharing Award from the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, and in 2014 he developed a play about Reynolda's African American farming village that received the Arts Council's Arts Development Award

Archer curated the 2011-12 exhibition Wonder and Enlightenment: Artist-Naturalists in the Early American South, which was published as an article in American Art Review in January 2012, co-authored by Martha Severens. In 2013 he curated Partisans: Social Realism in American Art. In 2014 he was co-managing curator for The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design. Archer is co-chair of the biennial Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes Conference. Hobbies include gardening, making miniature replicas of garden temples in wood, and fixing up a 1908 house in downtown Winston-Salem.

Term expires December 31, 2021.