Stoddard has worked as an art professional for more than 35 years. She has curated more than 100 exhibitions, including 12 large-scale projects for the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va., where she was both the Deputy Director of Exhibitions and the Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art (2011-14). In addition, she was the Director of Second Street Gallery, a nonprofit artspace in Charlottesville, Va. (2000-08), and continues to work as an independent curator and artist advisor (2008-present). She served as the first Development Director of the McGuffey Art Center (2017-18) and teaches courses in Museums Studies and Renaissance to Modern Art at JMU. Stoddard has a M.A. in art history/criticism from SUNY at Stony Brook and a B.A. in art history from Carleton College.