Museums and Memory Work
When: Wednesday, October 23, 12:00PM EST
Where: Zoom Webinar
LaToya Ruby Frazier has noted how her place-based, collaborative photographic practice challenges cyclical bias against the local: “people take folks for granted when they’re born and raised from a place.” In this spirit, how are art museum curators poised to support the surfacing, documentation, and preservation of cultural histories from within our communities? How can art museums care for—as opposed to care about— these experiences, encounters, and traditions? Doing so entails situating local arts ecosystems within broader narratives, and this webinar examines some of the ways that institutions are expanding their missions, areas of focus, and methodologies in service to “memory work.”
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Diana Tuite, Visiting Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Stanley Museum of Art Diana Tuite is Visiting Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art, where she curated Generations, a three-year collection reinstallation for the inauguration of the museum’s new building. She recently organized To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City, an exhibition developed in partnership with community members that focuses on the enduring impact of Haring’s two visits in the 1980s.
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Sarah Battle, Associate Projects Manager, National Gallery of Art Sarah Battle is a scholar on Washington Color School artist Kenneth Victor Young. Her current research focuses on Young’s formative years in Louisville, Kentucky through an oral history project, “Painting a Legacy”. The ongoing project is made possible thanks to the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, Kentucky Oral History Commission, and University of Louisville. She is the associate projects manager, academic programs and publications, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. | | | | | 
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Katelyn D. Crawford, William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art Katelyn D. Crawford is The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, where she has worked since 2017. There she has grown the permanent collection, reinterpreted collection galleries, and curated many exhibitions including Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity, currently on view. Before coming to Birmingham, she was the Assistant Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. |  | | Speaker
fari nzinga, Curator of African and Native American Collections, Speed Art Museum Dr. fari nzinga is the Curator of African and Native American Collections at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY. nzinga is also co-founder of the Color BLOC, an information and resource sharing network for artists and arts professionals of color, and sits on the steering committee for the Professional Organization of Women in the Arts (POWArts). She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.
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TK Smith, Curator of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Michael C. Carlos Museum TK Smith is an Atlanta-based curator, writer, and cultural historian. He is currently Curator, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art at Emory University. He has written for Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, and ART PAPERS, where he is a contributing editor. |
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