Collaborators & Colleagues

Veronica Roberts

Updated
23 May 2017

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Veronica Roberts

Veronica Roberts is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas, Austin. During her tenure at the Blanton, Roberts has curated numerous exhibitions, including Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser (2017), Donald Moffett (2015-16), and Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt (2014), She previously served in curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2017, Roberts served as an LOI panelist in Exhibitions & Public Interpretation.

References

Blanton Museum website

Grants & Grantees

Elephants on the Avenue: Race, Class and Community in Historic Germantown

Using the arts as a catalyst for community dialogue and engagement around race and class in Philadelphia's diverse Germantown neighborhood, this multi-part project joins artists such as Benjamin Volta and poet Sonia Sanchez, and historians from across the US to create public art installations, educational programs, and community events.

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Grants & Grantees

Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual culture in the 1950s through the 1970s are highlighted and explored in an exhibition, a publication, and performances.

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News

On the Horizon: 2019 Center-Funded Projects Reimagine Performance Spaces, Illuminate Community Voices, Reinterpret History

The organizations supported by the Center have a wide range of ambitious projects planned for 2019. The sampling below showcases their upcoming performances, exhibitions, and public programs around the region.

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Event

Cliveden's Living Kitchens: They Lived Where They Worked

Joseph McGill, founder of The Slave Dwelling Project, Inc., discusses his research findings based on sleeping in extant slave dwellings, as part of the "Kitchen Conversations" series hosted by Cliveden of the National Trust.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Adriel Luis

Adriel Luis is the curator of digital and emerging practice at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, where he advocates for underserved communities to be treated and represented equitably by museums and institutions.

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Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Free Youth Art Classes

Mural Arts, through their work with Cohabitation Strategies on the Restored Spaces Initiative, is hosting a series of Tuesday/Thursday workshops at their newly-opened, temporary community space and a strategic hub in South 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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SPACES International Artist in Residence Exhibition

The Village presents an exhibition featuring two installations by West African social practice artists Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Olanre Tejuoso.

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Public Forum: Liberian Women as Community Resources

The Liberian Women's Chorus for Change hosts Dr. Mary Moran—professor of anthropology at Colgate University, a specialist in gender, conflict, and post-conflict reconstruction, and in Liberian studies—and Dr. Ruth Stone, ethnomusicologist at Indiana University with expertise in the music of Liberia.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ann Hamilton

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

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Inequality in Bronze: Community Discussions

Stenton hosts a series of community discussions to gather public input and capture the priorities of neighborhood residents in the commissioning of a new memorial to Dinah.

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An Artist Embedded: "Their Story, Our Story: The Gay Pride Movement"

LGBT Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. For An Artist Embedded's June programming, Ain Gordon will explore an earlier protest, Philadelphia's 1965 Annual Reminder picket—one of the first gay rights demonstrations in the country.

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Framing Fraktur

Framing Fraktur explores the relationship between traditional fraktur and the work of seven contemporary artists presented through two simultaneous exhibitions this spring. The exhibition will be mounted at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Parkway Central Library, and is free and open to the public.

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Alien She: Zine Workshop

As part of the programming related to the Alien She exhibition at Vox Populi, artist Beth Heinly will run a two-day zine workshop at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

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360 Culture Lab: Di Hati-Ku

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News

Pew Fellows News: Rennie Harris’ New Work for Alvin Ailey Praised, James Ijames and Major Jackson Featured in New York Times, Alex Da Corte Named to “Most Influential Artists of 2018”

As 2018 comes to a close, our Pew Fellows remain active with public art, exhibitions, performances, residencies, and national press coverage. See the latest news updates in our roundup below.

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Muslim Voices of Philadelphia Screening at Bryn Mawr College

Muslim Voices of Philadelphia, an oral history media project that explores the rich and diverse history of Muslim communities in the Philadelphia region, is being screened at Bryn Mawr College.

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The Border Is An Invitation: An Exhibition of Photography Around Graffiti and Psychylustro

Mural Arts hosts an exhibition of photojournalist Martha Cooper's photographic preservation of graffiti and Steve Weinik's documentation of psychylustro by Katharina Grosse.

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Grants & Grantees

America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far

This exhibition combines art, technology, performance, and interactive programming to introduce young children and their families to local and global Muslim communities and culture.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Founded in 1824 in Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is home to over 600,000 printed items and more than 21 million manuscripts and graphic items. Its collections encompass more than 350 years of America’s history

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