Jeannine Falino is an independent curator working at the intersection of craft, design and American culture. She is an authority on American metalsmithing, jewelry and ceramics. A selection of her exhibitions includes New York Silver, Then and Now, a dialogue between contemporary artists and the historic silver collection of Museum of the City of New York (2017); Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, 2011; What Would Mrs. Webb Do? A Founder’s Vision, Museum of Arts and Design, 2014; and Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett, Fuller Craft Museum, 2008. She was co-curator of Gilded New York: Design, Fashion & Society, Museum of the City of New York, 2013 and Artistic Luxury: Fabergé–Tiffany–Lalique, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.

Current projects include the exhibition and catalogue for Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line, Walters Art Museum, forthcoming fall 2021 and The Newport Experience: Sustaining Historic Preservation into the 21st Century, Newport, London and New York: Preservation Society of Newport County and Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, October 2020. She is also a consultant for Designed by Women, an exhibition and online reference of women makers and designers, for the Stewart Program (forthcoming).

Falino teaches the history of American ceramics at RISD and the history of American craft media at Parsons, The New School. She is the former Peter and Carolyn Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She serves on the board of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, and is on the steering committee of the New York Silver Society and the Friends of American Art at Yale.