This webinar will investigate the unglamorous side of curating, curatorial projects aimed at correcting the unlevel playing field, including time, money, people, networks, archival materials, institutional buy-in, education, training, and more;  challenges of curating with limited resources; and how lessons from doing projects meant to shift the field or correct an absence teach us why these projects happen so infrequently.

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This webinar is hosted by AAMC Foundation's Engagement for International Curators Program fellows, with generous support from Terra Foundation for American Art.

 Meet the Speakers

Moderator

Brittany Webb, Curator of 20th Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Brittany Webb is the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). In this role, she oversees the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, and programs of 20th-century art and provides instruction for the School of Fine Arts. She is currently organizing a retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the work of African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) that includes an initiative to gift more than 250 sculptures by Rhoden to museums around the country. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Temple University.

Speaker

Charlotte Flint, Associate Curator, Hayward Gallery Touring

Charlotte Flint is a London-based curator and researcher with an interest in socially and politically engaged artistic practice, photography and the representation of women and the LGBTQ+ community. She is currently writing a book about the photographer and lesbian activist Tee A. Corinne, and has collaborated with the Feminist Library on a display on their archival posters, titled 'Beneath Every Woman's Curve Lies a Muscle'. Charlotte currently works as an Assistant Curator at Hayward Gallery Touring, and was previously an Assistant Curator at the Barbican.

Speaker

Claudia S. Preza, Assistant Curator, El Paso Museum of Art

Claudia S. Preza is a bilingual curator focusing primarily on  identity and counter-hegemonic initiatives within the US and MX border region. She strives to develop exhibitions and programming that present narratives of historically silenced individuals within the US art historical canon such as the Latine and LGBTQIA+ community. With almost 10 years of experience working in museums and galleries, Preza has worked with various art institutions. Currently, she is the Assistant Curator at the El Paso Museum of Art. Preza has a MA in Museums Professions with a concentration in Exhibition Development and a BA in Art History.

Bevin Bradley, Assistant Curator, Remai Modern

Bevin Bradley is an Assistant Curator at Remai Modern with over twenty years of diverse experience. This includes the not-for-profit sector, co-owning a commercial gallery, and working within the school system. In the not-for-profit sector, she worked with underserved youth, using art as a tool for re-direction. She was the co-owner and co-founder of a successful commercial art gallery. Bevin maintains an active studio practice, including art residencies within the school system. Her founding belief is that art needs to be publicly accessible, and relevant to local, national, and international issues.