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.

References

Walker Art Center website

Collaborators & Colleagues

Dr. Zoé Whitley

Zoe Whitley, PhD is curator of international art at Tate Modern, London.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Pablo Helguera

Since 2007, Helguera, a visual and performance artist, has served as director of adult and academic programs in the department of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Event

Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal Opening Reception

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Questions of Practice

Designing Museum Galleries for Contemporary Audiences: Darielle Mason & Dan Spock in Conversation

Darielle Mason and Dan Spock discuss issues of museum accessibility, experiential design, and the influence of digital culture on visitor engagement.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz

Visual artist Michelle Angela Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. She maintains a practice that examines issues of immigration, inequality, and human rights.

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Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal Virtual Discussion

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Grants & Grantees

Zoe Strauss: Ten Years

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's mid-career retrospective of the work of photographer Zoe Strauss offered the first comprehensive assessment of the artist's achievement to date.

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PAA: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks

The Philadelphia Art Alliance presents a site-specific installation by Beijing-based artists Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, exploring themes of family, artistic collaboration, fabrication, and the passage of time.

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Ann Hamilton: habitus

MacArthur Fellow and visual artist Ann Hamilton, whose installations incorporate textiles and fabric, created a major off-site installation on the Delaware River waterfront, accompanied by an exhibition of historical and contemporary fabrics at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

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Questions of Practice

Grantee Spotlight: Q&A with Curator Daniel Tucker

Curator Daniel Tucker on the exhibition and event series Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, which explores historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

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Dream Dance: Walking Tour

Lightbox Film Center chief curator Jesse Pires leads a walking tour of Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller.

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Questions of Practice: Photographer Zanele Muholi on Museum Accessibility

Visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi speaks to the physical and conceptual challenges of accessibility when “museums are far away from where the people are.”

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James Voorhies

James Voorhies is the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University where he oversees a contemporary arts program dedicated to the synthesis of art, design, and education.

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Adam Lerner

Adam Lerner is the Mark G, Falcone “MaFa” director and chief animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver.

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Event

Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal Virtual Curator-Led Tour

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Nato Thompson

Nato Thompson is chief curator at Creative Time. He served as a Center panelist (2008) and evaluator (2010), and contributed to the Center's Pigeons on the Grass, Alas series.

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Grants & Grantees

Quadruple-Consciousness

Vox Populi presented a group exhibition with guest-curator Malik Gaines that explored various tactics for representing the complex, contradictory legacies of cultural difference.

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Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Presents Great Gateways and the Cities that Make Them

Philadelphia Mural Arts Program has organized a panel discussion around the topic of the rail corridor, as part of its programming for Katharina Grosse's psychylustro.

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Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia

An exhibition at Shofuso Japanese House and Garden spotlights an intercultural body of design and architecture from four influential mid-century figures: George Nakashima, Junzo Yoshimura, and Antonin and Noémi Raymond.

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News

Coming in 2018: Center-Funded Projects from Taylor Mac, Nels Cline, Tania El Khoury, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and More

The coming year brings engaging and cutting-edge Center-funded projects to the Philadelphia region.

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