Emily Rauh Pulitzer
CHAIR EMERITUS
Emily Rauh Pulitzer served as Pulitzer Center board chair from 2006 to 2024. She is the founder and chair of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pulitzer is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, École du Louvre in Paris, and Harvard University.
She is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, a member of the Harvard Art Museums’ Director’s Advisory Council, an advisory commissioner of the Saint Louis Art Museum, a board member of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, a board member emeritus of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and an honorary trustee of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Pulitzer has served on the Board of Pulitzer Inc. and Harvard University’s Board of Overseers.
She has been awarded the National Medal of Arts, the St. Louis Award, the Independent Curators International’s Leo Award, the Harvard Medal, the Duncan Phillips Award, the Cincinnati Art Award, and the Residential Design Award of Excellence from Docomomo.
In addition, she has received honorary degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University, the Aquinas Institute of Theology, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
