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

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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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Grants & Grantees

Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp

The Philadelphia Museum of Art traced the influence of Marcel Duchamp on the dance, music, and visual artwork of these four equally protean figures.

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Swarthmore College Exhibition: Sanctuary

Swarthmore College presents Sanctuary, one of three culminating exhibitions at City Hall for Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary.

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Pieranna Cavalchini

Pieranna Cavalchini is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Curator of Contemporary Art, where she has organized over 20 exhibitions.

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Self-Organized Spaces on Their Own Terms

Vox Populi teamed up with Brooklyn-based curatorial collective Cleopatra's to explore the current role of artist-run spaces within the broader artistic community.

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Release

Filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Vijay Iyer created a site-specific installation in Eastern State Penitentiary, a once abandoned 19th-century prison.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Screening of Nosferatu, a symphony of horror, Accompanied by Live Organ

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Tell Me What I Can Do from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents Tell Me What I Can Do, part of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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Katharina Grosse: psychylustro

Philadelphia Mural Arts Program commissioned an impermanent public art project by artist Katharina Grosse: a massive episodic painting along a five-mile stretch of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

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Sheila Hicks: 50 Years

The Institute of Contemporary Art hosted this touring exhibition: the first major retrospective to honor the singular accomplishments of artist Sheila Hicks.

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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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Person of the Crowd Symposium: Flânerie and the Politics of Public Space

The Barnes Foundation presents a day-long symposium on the history of flânerie and the contemporary race and gender politics enmeshed in the act of walking.

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Art in Process

A discovery project investigates best practices in sharing the process of art-making to create meaningful connections between contemporary art and audiences.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

The Invisible City project consists of extensive oral history research, conducted with artists, critics, and curators active in the city's little-known avant-garde visual arts community of the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Women’s Mobile Museum: Panel Discussion

In conjunction with the Women’s Mobile Museum exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center holds a panel discussion.

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Person of the Crowd Preview Lecture: Strolling Through Paris with the Flâneur

The Barnes Foundation presents a preview lecture with Theresa Dolan, professor of art history at Temple University.

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Sarah Sze Catalog Launch and Conversation with Hal Foster and Carlos Basualdo

Sze, artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, will speak about her work in conversation with Hal Foster and Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Carlos Basualdo, followed by a Q&A session.

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Photos: Artists Activate In Terms of Performance Event at BAM

On April 4, we celebrated In Terms of Performance—the exhibition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) that reimagines our web-based keywords anthology—presented in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and BAM.

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Chester Made Cultural Exploration Zone: Community History Talk & Workshop with Laura Barraclough

Pennsylvania Humanities Council presents a community history talk and workshop led by Yale University’s Laura Barraclough.

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Let Me Tell You About a Dream I Had: The Miss Rockaway Armada

The Philadelphia Art Alliance commissioned the Miss Rockaway Armada, an internationally recognized group of artists and performers from all over the country, to install a building-wide exhibition.

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