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

Grants & Grantees

Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn

Arcadia University Art Gallery presented the first United States museum survey of the internationally acclaimed artist's ceramics outside of New York City.

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Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay

The work of 22 artists, spanning four generations, was presented in an exhibition that examined clay's appeal and craft.

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News

What Inspired in 2017? Our Network Responds

As 2017 draws to a close, we asked Center colleagues, panelists, grantees, and staff to reflect on the year in art.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Fred Wilson

New York City-based conceptual artist Fred Wilson is known for repurposing objects and artifacts to lead people to see them in a different way.

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Grants & Grantees

Hidden Lives, Illuminated

Stories from inside America’s correctional system are brought to light through four newly commissioned, animated short films, projected onto Eastern State Penitentiary’s 30-foot facade.

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Free to Love: The Cinema of the Sexual Revolution

The first film series on this scale dedicated to the sexual revolution, International House Philadelphia will present more than 40 commercial and underground films in early 2014.

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Tone Poems & Light Stories: The Great Migration

The African American Museum in Philadelphia will present an exhibition of works originally commissioned for Scribe Video Center’s Center-funded project The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-30).

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Dead Flowers

Vox Populi's exhibition mined historical notions of "the underground" in relationship to the work of director and cult legend Timothy Carey, and explored his legacy.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Paul Schimmel

Paul Schimmel was the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from 1990 to 2012 and has organized over 50 exhibitions in his career.

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Grants & Grantees

A Fierce Kind of Love: Connecting Communities through Story and Dialogue

A Fierce Kind of Love, a new play about the fight for disability rights, will be part of a series of public programs meant to generate public discussion beyond the disability community.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science

The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia presents Frankenstein & Dracula, an exhibition highlighting two seminal Gothic works that probe the intersection of scientific literature and social anxieties.

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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the first full-scale exhibition of the artist's work in more than 30 years.

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What To See This Fall: The Women’s Mobile Museum Takes Photography Exhibition to Philadelphia Neighborhoods, First US Commission of Yael Bartana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Website Documents Cabaret History, and More

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Doing Time/Depth of Surface

Philagrafika followed up its 2010 citywide festival with an artist residency and follow-up exhibition of work by Spanish artists Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González.

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Spit Spreads Death Panel Discussion

The Mütter Museum presents a panel discussion on how the museum is incorporating contemporary art into its historical and scientific curatorial approach.

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As Far As My Fingertips Take Me from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, part of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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Pierre Bal-Blanc

Pierre Bal-Blanc is an independent curator and been the director of Contemporary Art Centre of Brétigny in greater Paris since 2003.

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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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Planning for The Puppet Show

This exhibition examined the imagery of puppets in contemporary art with work by 30 artists.

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Projects On Tour: Pati Hill Exhibition, Thaddeus Phillips, Silvana Cardell Bring Work to New Venues

Following successful premieres in the Philadelphia region, several Center-supported performances and exhibitions are traveling to venues around the world.

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