Carolyn Anne Laffan (26 October 1967-9 April 2024) was an Australian curator at Arts Centre Melbourne and became Senior Curator of the Australian Music Vault from 2017.
[1] While doing museum studies in 1990 she undertook a work placement at Arts Centre Melbourne.
[2] In 1997 Laffan completed her Master of Arts thesis "When a boy from Alabama meets a girl from Gundagai : social dancing in Melbourne, 1942-1943" at University of Melbourne, which deals with social dancing in that city in mid-World War 2.
[4] Through her work as researcher and exhibition curator,[5] she presented the work of women and Australian First Nations artists,[2] such as exhibitions at the Arts Centre Corroboree: Sights and Sound of the First Australians (1994) and Hidden Desires: One Hundred Years of Victoria's Women Playwrights (1996).
[8] She was Senior Curator of the Australian Music Vault when it opened in 2017.