Carole Anne Meehan is a member of the curatorial staff at the Institute of Contemporary Art. She has organized over 50 exhibitions and public art projects since 1988 for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Boston Center for the Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In March 1998 she joined the staff of the Institute of Contemporary Art as the first director of ICA/Vita Brevis, a program that commissions artists to create new, temporary works of public art in response to Bostonās landscape and history. In 2004 the ICA introduced a new volume that documents the programās first five years. Entitled Vita Brevis / History, Landscape and Art 1998-2003, and co-edited by Meehan and Jill Medvedow, the ICAās James Sachs Plaut Director, the publication has been issued jointly by the ICA and the German publisher, Steidl.

In partnership with the National Park Service, Meehan developed and launched ICA Artists-in-Residence at Boston National Historical Park, a unique commissioning program that merges contemporary expression with historical content. She serves as a board member for Medicine Wheel Productions, Inc., a non-profit that organizes an annual 24 hour observance of World AIDS Days and offers other programs, and as an advisor to Arts on the Point at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.