Collaborators & Colleagues

Darsie Alexander

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Darsie Alexander is the chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. She is responsible for the curatorial vision of a museum that has long been an international standard-bearer, particularly when it comes to multidisciplinary programming. Notable among her recent exhibitions is Dance Works I: Merce Cunningham/Robert Rauschenberg (2011). She is currently working on an upcoming museum-wide exhibition titled Undisciplined. She recently served as a Center exhibitions panelist in 2013.

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Walker Art Center website

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I is for Institute: Kunsthalle Lissabon

The ICA will present a film screening of The Mesh and the Circle followed by a conversation with Luís Silva and João Mourão, co-directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Suzanne Ciani in Concert

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents a concert by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Photographer Zanele Muholi on What it Means To Be a “Visual Activist”

South African photographer Zanele Muholi describes how visuals are a “means of articulation” on issues of representation and human rights.

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Asian Arts Pearl Street Call for Micro-Project Proposals

Asian Arts Initiative invites submissions of micro-project proposals, designed to help further transform the Pearl Street alleyway in Philadelphia's Chinatown North neighborhood.

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Grants & Grantees

Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Artist-in-residence Teresa Jaynes will curate a multisensory exhibition based on the Library Company's extraordinary collection of pre-Braille texts for the visually impaired.

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Superterranean: Section, Void

Pig Iron Theatre Company's Section, Void installation at Cherry Street Pier serves as a companion piece to Superterranean.

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Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement III - The Triple Deities Installation

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Paul Evans Seminar: Collecting Mid-Century Modern Furniture

A panel of specialists from New York and Philadelphia auction houses and galleries will explore the mounting interest for mid-century modern furniture.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a Dutch visual artist whose work centers on the complex relationship between public space and urban renewal.

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Grants & Grantees

NEW Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia

An interactive exhibition at the Mütter Museum about the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia explores connections between civic responsibility and public health.

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Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition

"What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?" Five temporary public artworks, created by artists including Mel Chin, Emeka Ogboh, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Kara Crombe, and Alexander Rosenberg, along with on-site "laboratories" for public feedback considered this question and notions of monumentality within the civic sphere.

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Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the architecture and design department at the Museum of Modern Art, is one of the world's foremost experts on design.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art, & Technology 1968-1985 Exhibition

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents an exhibition surveying a generation of pioneering female artists and relating their work to the technology innovators who helped shape the information age.

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Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibited the first career retrospective for this American figurative painter of African descent, born and educated in Philadelphia.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Screening of Nosferatu, a symphony of horror, Accompanied by Live Organ

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Killjoy's Kastle

Curator and co-director of Icebox Project Space Timothy Belknap presents Killjoy's Kastle, an immersive performance and visual art installation.

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The College of Physicians/Mütter Museum

As the United States' finest museum of medical history, the Mütter Museum displays its beautifully preserved collections in a 19th-century "cabinet museum" setting.

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Making Place Matter

To inaugurate The Clay Studio’s new home in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, an exhibition features works by ceramists Molly Hatch, Ibrahim Said, and Pew Fellow Kukuli Velarde to reflect on the complex meanings of place.

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Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz works at the intersection of social practice, installation, and performance.

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Mural Arts Presents Katharina Grosse: psychylustro

Berlin-based visual artist Katharina Grosse will transform one of Philadelphia's major transportation thoroughfares with a series of seven bright, bold installations.

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