A former associate curator at The Jewish Museum, New York, she has organized numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. Her recent publications include The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography (2005) and Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn (1998), both of which accompanied exhibitions at the Museum. Chevlowe holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. In 1992 she won the National Jewish Book Award for Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945 (1991), co-edited with Norman L. Kleeblatt. The catalogue, for an exhibition held in 1991 at the Jewish Museum, also won New York State’s Henry Allen Moe Prize.