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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19
Pre-Conference Webinar Panel
This webinar is included in Conference registration. A link to the webinar will be provided on Socio, the Conference platform.
12:00 - 1:15 PM ET
Panel:
Trans-regional Conversations on Indigenous Practices
SATURDAY, MAY 6
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
AAMC Foundation Mentorship Program Workshop
Private event - by invitation only.
4:00 – 6:00 PM ET
Program Alumni Event
Private event - by invitation only.
SUNDAY, MAY 7
All events held at The Prince George Ballroom, 15 East 27th Street (between 5th Ave and Madison Ave), New York, NY 10016 and virtually, except where noted.
9:30 - 10:00 AM ET
Coffee Reception & Check-In
In-person only.
10:00 - 10:15 AM ET
Welcome Remarks
10:15 - 11:45 AM ET
Keynote Address by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Director, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum
11:45 AM - 12:50 PM ET
Panel: Curating Across/Between Departments
12:50 - 2:00 PM ET
Break
Please note that lunch is not included as part of Conference registration.
2:00 - 2:30 PM ET
Local Voices
: Culture @ 3 Building Community
2:30 PM - 3:35 PM ET
Panel: Latinx / Latin American Exhibition & Collection Building in NYC
5:30 - 7:00 PM ET
Awards for Excellence Celebration
In-person only.
MONDAY, MAY 8
All
events held at The Prince George Ballroom, 15 East 27th Street (between
5th Ave and Madison Ave), New York, NY 10016 and virtually, except
where noted.
9:00 - 9:30 AM ET
Coffee Reception & Check-In
In-person only.
9:30 - 10:35 AM ET
Keynote In Dialogue: DEAI: Recruitment, Hiring & Pipeline
with Angie Brice, Founder and CEO of Brice Consulting Group LLC
10:35 - 11:40 AM ET
Panel: The Curator in Public Art
11:40 AM - 12:45 PM ET
RoundTables
In-person only.
12:45 - 2:30 PM ET
Break
Please note that lunch is not included as part of Conference
registration.
2:30 - 3:30 PM ET
Keynote Address by Teresita Fernández, Artist
3:30 - 4:35 PM ET
Panel: Best Practices Guide for Artist Demographic Data Collection
6:00 - 7:45 PM ET
Members' Party
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Ticketed event - pre-registration required. In-person only.
TUESDAY, MAY 9
All
events held at The Prince George Ballroom, 15 East 27th Street (between
5th Ave and Madison Ave), New York, NY 10016 and virtually, except
where noted.
9:00 - 9:30 AM ET
Coffee Reception & Check-In
In-person only.
9:30 - 10:30 AM ET
RoundTables
In-person only. Breakfast will not be provided.
10:30 - 11:45 AM ET
Keynote: Racial Microaggressions, Relational Ruptures, and Repair with Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy, President of the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice, Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships
11:45 AM - 12:50 PM ET
Panel: Outside/Inside
12:50 - 1:00 PM ET
Concluding Remarks
SATURDAY, MAY 13
Post-Conference Panel at TEFAF
TEFAF, The Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065
Access to this in-person event, hosted at TEFAF in New York City, is included in Conference registration. One-day access to the fair is also included.
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
TEFAF Talks with Art Curators (AAMC): Leadership Now
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Listed in order of appearance at the Conference.
Pre-Conference Webinar Panel: Trans-regional Conversations on Indigenous Practices
This webinar is included in Conference registration. A link to the webinar will be provided on Socio, the Conference platform.
The panel will bring together curators from diverse geographical and epistemic contexts whose work focuses on contemporary Indigenous artistic practices. The conversation will address how curatorial practices can address and present Indigenous perspectives in nuanced, activist, and non-tokenistic ways while grappling with systemic issues in the museum field, addressing host institutions’ needs and processes, building long-term sustainability opportunities, and developing community-based strategies for interpretation and engagement. The event will address common challenges and shared tools, amplifying the conversation among diverse curatorial locales while also considering the differences in institutional systems, research opportunities, and funding infrastructures.
Moderator
Ilaria Conti, Curator, American Federation of Arts
Panelists
Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Sámi Indigenous Scholar, Duojár and Curator
Pablo Ramirez De Leon, Curator and Cultural Theorist
Panel: Curating Across/Between Departments
Recent innovative display strategies in encyclopedic institutions have pushed the limits of experimentation in museums. For example, the Bode Museum’s
Beyond Compare exhibition juxtaposed medieval European sculpture with traditional African Art. In this exhibition, viewers were forced to confront their biases of beauty and art historical canons. Likewise, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
Crossroads: Power and Piety exhibition in Medieval Sculpture Hall experimented with non-traditional groupings that highlighted overarching concepts core to understanding medieval works of art. These are just two permanent collection exhibitions out of many that represent a turn in curatorial work, which can often be siloed. Inter/cross-departmental exhibitions not only unsettle visitors, who might expect works of art to be organized by chronology or geography, but the installations also represent a move in museums toward dismantling their claims to knowledge and ownership. The panelists will reflect on their experiences workings across and between curatorial departments to mount pioneering exhibitions at their institutions.
Co-Organizer & Moderator
Andrea Achi, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-Organizer and Panelist
Akili Tommasino, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Panelists
Alisa Chiles, Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Maurita N. Poole, Executive Director, Newcomb Art Museum
Local Voices: Culture@3 Building Community
As cultural organizations scrambled to navigate the early days of the pandemic, Taryn Sacramone of Queens Theatre and Chair of the city's Cultural Institutions Group, began gathering leaders on a daily call. The 3pm zoom was dubbed Culture@3 and quickly grew to include hundreds of nonprofit cultural organizations of all sizes from throughout the city who came together to discuss challenges, share advice and resources, and collectively problem solve. Co-led by Taryn, Sade Lythcott of National Black Theatre and Lucy Sexton of New Yorkers for Culture & Arts, Culture@3 continues to this day and has proved to be transformational for the city's cultural community. Join the co-leaders of Culture@3 to discuss the history, impact, and learnings from this initiative, and how it can serve as a model for developing new ways to build community and connectivity in the arts sector.
Panelists
Sade Lythcott, Chief Executive Officer, National Black Theatre
Taryn Sacramone, Executive Director, Queens Theatre
Lucy Sexton, Executive Director, New Yorkers for Culture and Arts
Panel:
Latinx Art in New York
After decades of being confined mainly to culturally specific or small, community-oriented museums, Latinx art is starting to be represented in mainstream museums devoted to U.S., modern and contemporary art. As a city with one of the nation’s largest Latinx populations, New York is a center-stage for this shift. Whereas El Museo del Barrio, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Jersey City Museum have been cornerstones of Latinx art in the New York region for decades, more recently the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art have garnered great visibility and mediatic presence for their Latinx art acquisitions and exhibitions. This panel will bring together curators from institutions with recent and long-standing practices collecting and exhibiting Latinx art, in an effort to explore the current dynamics at play at art spaces of cultural specificity and the mainstream, along with their impact in the cultural landscape and in the art market.
Moderator
Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting, Sculpture & Latinx Art and History, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Panelists
Beverly Adams, Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, Museum of Modern Art
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Senior Program Officer, Creativity and Free Expression, Ford Foundation
Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Rodrigo Moura, Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio
Keynote
- DEAI: Recruitment, Hiring & Pipeline Toolkit
with
Angie Brice, Founder & CEO, Brice Consulting Group, LLC
In the summer of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, museum directors, educators, and leaders from across New York City formed the Cross-Museum DEAI Task Force to address diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI) among museum staff. With senior management representatives from 16 New York institutions, the Task Force aimed to make New York City’s cultural institutions more accessible and diverse spaces for staff, Board, members, artists, and audiences. A subset of this Task Force was responsible for meaningful change in hiring, recruitment and pipeline development practices and worked together for over a year, in deep partnership Brice Consulting Group LLC, to create a DEAI Recruitment & Hiring Toolkit. Comprised of 3 deliverables – a Summary Landscape Analysis, a Hiring & Recruitment Best Practices Guide, and a Diversity Evaluation Tool – as well as a foreword by Tom Finkelpearl, the former Queens Museum Director and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner, our work is poised to bring deep value to the broader field. If you are looking to strengthen your recruitment and hiring practices, be it with a laser focus on equity, or concrete tactics for diversifying your applicant pool and staff, this toolkit is your one stop shop. Join us to learn more and consider replicating for your own context!
Panel:
The Curator in Public Art
Many current curators of public art programs were trained in the museum. Is the role of a public art curator sustained or transformed from a museum model? With public art a gateway to museum collections, have codes and conditions of museum practice inspired or restricted artists who create public art? Do curators proceed from the energized position of the artist offering new work to communities, publics, and institutions? Can these lived experiences impact museum practice?
Moderator and Organizer
Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator, Madison Square Park Conservancy
Panelists
Iwona Blazwick, Emeritus Curator Whitechapel Gallery, Curatorial Lead Arts AlUla
Allison Glenn, Curator, Counterpublic Triennial, St. Louis
Ken Lum, Artist and Co-Founder, Monument Lab
Panel:
Best Practices Guide for Artist Demographic Data
Coordination
Art organizations have recognized the need for a better understanding of the demographics of the artists whose works are in their collections and exhibitions. While there is the understanding that these surveys need to be undertaken for transparency, accountability, and internal reckoning, there has also been a strong apprehension about initiating surveys without direct lines of communication internally and externally, priority given to ethics, and a grasp of the impact on those doing the work. To aid the field, AAMC Foundation has partnered with curatorial and non-curatorial colleagues to create the
Best Practices Guide for Artist Demographic
Data Coordination
, a collaboratively written Guide developed with support from the Mellon Foundation, that seeks to provide insight for those developing surveys. Join us for a conversation with some of the Guide’s contributors to discuss the formation,
implementation, and future uses of this resource, along with ongoing questions and concerns for demographic guide collection.
Organizer
Judith Pineiro, Executive Director, AAMC & AAMC Foundation
Moderator
Victoria Mattingly, DEI Data Expert, Author, and CEO of Mattingly Solutions
Panelists
Marissa Del Toro, Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Programs, NXTHVN
David Max Horowitz, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Liz Munsell, The Barnett & Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art, The Jewish Museum
Sarah Osborne-Bender, Head of Library Technical Services, National Gallery of Art
Keynote:
Racial
Microaggressions,
Relational
Ruptures,
and
Repair
with
Dr.
Kenneth
V.
Hardy,
President
of
the
Eikenberg
Academy
for
Social
Justice,
and
Director
of
the
Eikenberg
Institute
for
Relationships
Racial
microaggressions—intentional,
unintentional,
benign,
or
egregious—are,
unfortunately,
common
everyday
occurrences.
The
impact
of
racial
microaggressions
is
seldom
experienced
by
those
on
the
receiving
end
as
“micro”
and
can
trigger
emotions
that
range
from
insult
and
assault
to
deep
hurt
and
harm.
The
widespread
negative
effects
of
racial
microaggressions
on
relationships—especially
those
that
are
cross-racial—are
compounded
by
the
silence
and
awkwardness
that
often
follows.
The
“micro-aggressor,”
the
“micro-aggressed,”
and
the
“innocent
onlooker”
are
often
immobilized
amid
these
tense
moments
for
a
variety
of
reasons.
The
micro-aggressor
frequently
focuses
on
the
innocence
and/or
unintentionality
of
the
assault,
often
leaving
it
unaddressed,
while
the
micro-aggression
seldom
feels
the
emotional-psychological
safety
or
comfort
needed
to
respond
in
an
authentic
and
emotionally
regulated
way,
and,
unfortunately,
the
innocent
onlooker,
is
often
stymied
by
not
knowing
what
to
say
or
the
fear
of
saying
the
wrong
thing.
Thus,
in
most
cases,
microaggressions
remain
unacknowledged,
unaddressed,
and
ultimately
become
a
major
source
of
relational
rupture
and
racial
polarization.
This
workshop
will
provide
strategies
and
techniques
that
the
micro-aggressor,
the
micro-aggressed,
and
the
innocent
onlookers
can
employ
to
effectively
respond
to
racial
microaggressions.
Special
attention
will
be
devoted
to
providing
a
framework
for
addressing
and
repairing
relational
ruptures
caused
by
microaggressions
and
other
harmful
race-related
acts.
Panel:
Outside/Inside
This
session
explores
what
it
means
to
empower
voices
outside
the
museum
professional
field
as
documenters
and
curators
of
their
own
experiences
and
art.
Building
on
the
principle
of
“nothing
for
us
without
us,”
panelists
are
a
mix
of
professional
curators
and
artists,
activists,
and
community
representatives
who
come
from
outside
the
curatorial
field—all
of
whom
are
interested
in
sharing
their
experiences
collaborating
on
the
production
of
exhibitions
and
activations
and
considering
how
and
where
these
approaches
succeed
and,
perhaps
most
significantly,
whether
they
can
result
in
long
term
institutional
change.
Presenters
from
the
curatorial
sphere
discuss
the
process
of
transitioning
from
author
to
facilitator
and
managing
institutional
politics,
while
“outsider”
curators
speak
to
the
difficulties
inherent
in
navigating
traditional
museum
structures
and
the
expressive
possibilities
that
come
with
being
an
“outside”
voice
on
the
“inside.”
Moderator
and
Organizer
Shoshana
Resnikoff,
Demmer
Curator
of
20th
and
21st
Century
Design,
Milwaukee
Art
Museum
Panelists
Katherine
Kasdorf,
Associate
Curator,
Arts
of
Asia
and
the
Islamic
World,
Detroit
Institute
of
Arts
Rebeca
Méndez,
Artist,
Designer,
and
Chair
at
UCLA
Design
Media
Arts
Lorilee
Wastasecoot,
Curator
of
Indigenous
Art
and
Engagement,
Legacy
Art
Galleries
Post-Conference
Panel:
TEFAF Talks with Art Curators (AAMC): Leadership Now
This webinar is included in Conference registration. A link to the webinar will be provided on Socio, the Conference platform.
Expanding
upon
the
Association
of
Art
Museum
Curators
annual
Art
Curators
Conference,
we
are
bringing
together
leaders
that
have
recently
moved
into
their
current
roles
to
discuss
their
interpretation
of
empowerment
through
their
work,
collections/exhibitions,
teams,
and
community.
Moderator
Siddhartha
V.
Shah,
John
Wieland
1958
Director,
Mead
Art
Museum,
Amherst
College
Panelists
Tracee
Glab,
Executive
Director,
Flint
Institute
of
Arts
Mónica
Ramírez-Montagut,
Executive
Director,
Parrish
Art
Museum
Michelle
Yun
Mapplethorpe,
Executive
Director,
Katonah
Museum
of
Art
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