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

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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the study, practice, and appreciation of photography in the Philadelphia region.

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Event

America to Zanzibar: Exhibition

Young children and their families learn about modern and historic Muslim communities in Please Touch Museum’s new featured exhibition America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Francis Kéré on why every architecture project is “a product of collaboration.”

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News

Pew Fellows News: Raphael Xavier’s Hip-Hop Practice in Visual Art Exhibition, James Ijames’ ‘Kill Move Paradise’ at The Wilma Theater, and Leah Stein’s Site-Specific Dance at Woodmere Art Museum

This month, Pew Fellows offer premiere performances and exhibitions with works in photography, film, theater, dance, and music.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Grants & Grantees

Jason Rhoades, Four Roads Discovery Grant

The Institute of Contemporary Art set about organizing the first posthumous survey on the art of Jason Rhoades, consulting with the artist's colleagues and collectors.

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Planning for Strange Currencies

This exhibition at the Galleries of Moore College of Art & Design will critically re-examine the emergence and development of unorthodox, artist-driven, and collective artistic practices in Mexico City in the 1990s.

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Publishing As Practice

Three experimental art publishers explore publishing as an incubator for new forms of editorial, curatorial, and artistic practice in a residency program based in Philadelphia’s Ulises bookshop.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Sarah Stolfa

Sarah Stolfa is executive director of Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

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Event

Shofuso and Modernism Documentary Premiere

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James Castle: A Retrospective

The first comprehensive museum exhibition of James Castle's work consisted of over 300 drawings, text works, and handmade books.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock on the Social Connotations of Dolls

Visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses the power dolls have to create and subvert expectations.

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Tacita Dean: JG

British artist Tacita Dean created a 26 1/2-minute work, in 35mm anamorphic film, in homage to the writer J.G. Ballard.

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Monument Lab Summer Sampler

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents a preview event for its forthcoming public art project Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition.

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Farm for the City

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's (PHS) Farm for the City transforms center city Philadelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza.

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Asian Arts Initiative's Pearl Street Clean-up and Community Day

As an extension of its Pearl Street and Social Practice Lab programming, Asian Arts Initiative invites volunteers to work with Chinatown North and Callowhill residents and neighbors, in maintaining cleanliness in the Pearl Street alleyway.

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Peter Saul: A Retrospective

PAFA presented the most comprehensive exhibition of Peter Saul's work to date, featuring over 50 artworks spanning from 1958 to present.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Thelma Golden

Thelma Golden has been the director and chief curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem since 2000.

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