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: Visual Artist Ann Hamilton on the Social Connotations of Cloth

Ann Hamilton on her interest in exploring the social and material connotations of cloth.

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David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) Installation

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation presents a newly commissioned, site-responsive multimedia installation by visual artist and Pew Fellow David Hartt.

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Mark Beasley

Mark Beasley is a curator and writer from the United Kingdom who is currently curator-at-large at Performa in New York.

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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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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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David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) Performances

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation presents a series of live programs featuring Caribbean, African American, and Jewish music.

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

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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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News

Augmented Reality Brings 2,200 Year-Old Chinese Terracotta Warriors to Life in The Franklin Institute’s Latest Exhibition

The Franklin Institute’s a new immersive adaptation of one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in modern time recently made its debut in Philadelphia.

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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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Just Say It or Think It and It Is So

Artist Barkley L. Hendricks suggested that whether or not an artist is deemed contemporary is really about who is doing the talking.

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Grants & Grantees

Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration

This exhibition, which will be the Eastern State Penitentiary's first to focus on the current state of incarceration in America, will shed light on this critical contemporary subject.

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Jason Rhoades, Four Roads

On view in late 2013, the Institute of Contemporary Art's comprehensive survey of Rhoades' all-embracing vision was organized around four room-sized sculptures dating from 1993 to 2006.

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Stories of Refuge from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents Stories of Refuge at Twelve Gates Arts, part of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal

An exhibition and interpretation of Milford Graves’ artistic laboratory as a living, interactive theater shed light on a lifetime of multidisciplinary creative work from this icon of the free jazz movement.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form Performances

The Michener Art Museum presents a series music performances and dance workshops that capture the spirit of the 1920s.

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ICA: Jason Rhoades, Four Roads

The first major American museum exhibition of the work of this exceptional artist. Jason Rhoades lived and worked in Los Angeles; however his art has been little seen in the United States until now.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton is internationally recognized for her large scale, multimedia installations.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kelsey Halliday Johnson

Kelsey Halliday Johnson is an independent curator whose work brings to light alternative and underrepresented histories and voices.

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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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