A 2019 Williams College survey of the collections of 18 major US museums found that, of a selection from works by 9,000 named artists, just 1.2% of works were made by Black artists. A panel of museum curators and directors will consider how museums are now working to diversify their collections.
This symposium—in person or live via Zoom— jointly organized by the Arts Council of Princeton and the Princeton University Art Museum and cosponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council, is set to accompany Retrieving the Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists, an exhibition on view from October 14 through December 3 at the Arts Council of Princeton, Paul Robeson Arts Center.
Please join the speakers after the program for a reception and to view the exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street.
Participants:
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Introduction: James Steward, Director, Princeton University Art Museum
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Panelists:
- Maura Reilly, Director, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and author of Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating (2018)
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Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Catherine Evans, Deputy Director, Collections and Curatorial Strategies, The Newark Museum of Art
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Laura Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Princeton University Art Museum
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Discussant: Rachael Z. DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art and Faculty in American Studies and Chair, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
- Concluding Remarks: Adam Welch, Executive Director, Arts Council of Princeton
Free registration via Zoom here. (When prompted, click to sign in as “attendee.”)
This event will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar by clicking the “CC” icon. To access Spanish-language captioning, open Streamtext, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning.
Para acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar “español” o el idioma de su elección.
LATE THURSDAYS! Thursday evening programming is made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support has been provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation.
