Collaborators & Colleagues

Justina Barrett

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Justina Barrett is the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Site Manager for its History Houses, and Museum Educator for American Art. From 2011 to 2013, she participated in the Dance and History Research Project, a Center-led interdisciplinary research project between dancers and historians that explored alternative ways of interpreting historic sites.

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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Michener Art Museum Casts New Light on Charles Sheeler and his 1920s Fashion Photography

From March 18 through July 9, 2017, the James A. Michener Art Museum will present an exhibition featuring 85 portraits and fashion photographs created between 1926 and 1931.

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Event

Sonic Migration: Morning Comes

Created by artist duo Mendi + Keith Obadike, the sound installation plays shifting musical harmonies that are triggered by sunlight at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church.

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Grants & Grantees

Not Your Typical 18th Century Gentleman

This research project will examine the unknown biography of aristocrat and eminent botanist William Hamilton and his role as a "bachelor gentleman" in 18th-century Philadelphia, with the goal of creating new interpretive programs that will enable visitors to connect to contemporary discourse on family, class, gender, and race.

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Grants & Grantees

Awakening the Senses: New Interpretive Approaches at the Morris Arboretum

In an effort to deepen visitors' curiosity about the arboretum's plants, architecture, and history, the Morris Arboretum will develop mobile technology that provides instant access to a wide variety of content.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art, & Technology 1968-1985 Exhibition

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents an exhibition surveying a generation of pioneering female artists and relating their work to the technology innovators who helped shape the information age.

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Eastern State Penitentiary: The Murals of the Catholic Chaplain's Office Unveiled

Eastern State Penitentiary will unveil the restored artworks in its Catholic chaplain's office—the site of 23 murals painted in 1955 by inmate Lester Smith, who converted to Catholicism in prison.

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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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Yael Bartana: Staring Back at the Sun Film Screening

Staring Back at the Sun highlights thirty-five works by contemporary Israeli video artists, who offer critical perspectives on the political and cultural landscape of Israel and beyond.

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Person of the Crowd: Artist Lectures and Gallery Talks

The Barnes Foundation presents a series of artist lectures and gallery talks.

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies

The Association for Public Art presents an interactive, site-specific work by internationally recognized Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.

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An Introduction to The Women’s Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) will introduce The Women's Mobile Museum to the public with a panel discussion.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ruth Estévez

Ruth Estévez is a curator, writer, and stage designer. She is currently gallery director and curator of REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

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Person of the Crowd: Anya Evans’ Operation Catsuit

Performance artist Anya Evans will present her ongoing performance piece Operation Catsuit.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Edgar Arceneaux

Edgar Arceneaux is a Los Angeles-based artist. From 1999-2012, he was director of the Watts House Project, a nonprofit neighborhood redevelopment organization.

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Event

I is for Institute: Kunsthalle Lissabon

The ICA will present a film screening of The Mesh and the Circle followed by a conversation with Luís Silva and João Mourão, co-directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon.

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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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When Museums Tackle Tough Topics: Race, Science, and The Penn Museum

The Penn Museum presents a discussion on the process of creating its recent Center-funded public classroom series Science and Race: History, Use, and Abuse.

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Chester Made: Community Branding & The Hundred Year Plan: Everything is Useful

Chester Made presents "Community Branding & The Hundred Year Plan: Everything is Useful," an evening with Ouigi Theodore, creative director and founder of The Brooklyn Circus

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