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

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Mel Chin

Mel Chin embraces a broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Quentin Morris

For more than 50 years, visual artist Quentin Morris has been creating monochromatic paintings and works on paper that explore the possibilities of the color black. He talks about the early moments that shaped his career, starting with trips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with his father, and how Philadelphia has transformed in his time as an artist.

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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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Colored People Time: SCRAAATCH Performance

In conjunction with Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents, the Institute of Contemporary Art presents a sound and performance art piece by SCRAAATCH.

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Gardens Speak from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents Gardens Speak, the centerpiece of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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News

Fall Visual Arts Preview: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Lanterns on the Parkway, the Monsters and Science of Frankenstein & Dracula, New Monuments for Philadelphia, and More

The Philadelphia region’s fall arts calendar includes a range of exciting exhibitions—from projects that activate public spaces, to installations that amplify community voices and reinterpret history.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Cesar Garcia

Cesar Garcia is the founding director and chief curator of the Mistake Room, Los Angeles. A curator, writer and educator, Garcia formerly served as the associate director and senior curator of LAXART.

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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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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Poet and Performer Tracie Morris on Preserving a “Feeling of Liveness” in a Museum Setting

Poet, performer, and scholar Tracie Morris shares the impact and challenges of presenting time-based art in museums.

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Michael Rakowitz

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

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Grants & Grantees

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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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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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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Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Presents "Not My Outside World" with Curator Elizabeth Thomas

A conversation with psychylustro curator Elizabeth Thomas and artist and writer Douglas Ashford, associate professor at Cooper Union and former member of Group Material.

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Pablo de Ocampo

Pablo de Ocampo is a Vancouver-based film and exhibitions curator at Western Front, one of Canada’s leading artist-run centers for contemporary art and new music.

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Event

Monument Lab

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents Monument Lab, featuring over 20 temporary public artworks.

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Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America

An exhibition and a newly commissioned graphic novel by Native American artists—illustrator Weshoyot Alvitre and writer Lee Francis—re-contextualize 18th-century historic events from the perspective of indigenous communities.

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