From Me to We: Curating Collective History through Solo Retrospectives

Part of the UArts Museums Forum, hosted by the MA in Museum Studies Program

Wednesday, April 17, 2024: Panel Discussion at 6:00pm, Reception Immediately Following 7:30pm

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This panel brings together curators who have recently organized career-spanning retrospectives of women artists. While these exhibitions celebrate under recognized artists' individual bodies of work they also make space for materials documenting their participation in arts communities. By making connections with their peers and influences these curatorial projects introduce viewers into the larger arts eco-system that have supported these artists’ work prior to institutional representation. 

Moderated by Brittany Webb: the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of 20th Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; curator of the current John Rhoden exhibit and co-curator of Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (2020-2021)

Panelists include Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum who worked on the Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And retrospective; Laura Phillps, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art who worked on the Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map retrospective (2023); Cindy Kang, Curator at The Barnes Foundation who worked on Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris (2023-2024); and Lilia Rocio Taboada, Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance, MoMA, who worked on Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022-2023).