Wava Carpenter

Wava Carpenter is a curator and programming developer specializing in 20th-century and contemporary design. At Design Miami, she curated numerous exhibitions and commissioned projects and was responsible for, among other things, orchestrating the show’s programming, including Design Talks, Design Performances and Design Awards. Formerly, Wava held a Curatorial Fellowship at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, working on exhibitions such as Second Skin and New Design from Israel. She has also taught Critical Theory at Parsons The New School for Design, where she earned an M.A. in the History of Design and Decorative Arts, focusing her thesis work on the emergence of Italian Design in Postwar America. Wava is currently Editor in Chief at Pamono, a one-of-a-kind marketplace and magazine specializing in distinctive design objects and the stories behind them.