Tag: curation

01/15, Week 2: Catharina Manchanda

December 14, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

IN-PERSON in the Recital Hall in the Comm Bldg or live streamed on Zoom: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/86447124526

Catharina Manchanda is the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum.

Originally from Germany, Catharina Manchanda received her Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York (2005), where she wrote her dissertation on conceptual art and photography in 1960-70s German art.

Recent and current exhibitions include: Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, the artist’s 50-year career retrospective, co-curated with Cecilia Wichmann at the Baltimore Museum of Art (October 17 2024-January 19, 2025); Elizabeth Malaska: All Be Your Mirror (November 17, 2023-June 16, 2024). Upcoming: Bethany Collins: At Sea (November 14, 2024-May 4, 2025); Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder (November 20, 2024-June 1, 2025).

https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/18237-catharina-manchanda

Week 2: Thea Quiray Tagle on Wednesday, 1/13/21 from 11:30-1pm Zoom link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/82631124837

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Thea Quiray Tagle, is a curator, writer, and an assistant professor of ethnic studies and gender & sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Throughout her various research and creative projects, Thea remains interested in the following questions: how can socially engaged art and performance move us, collectively and individually, to inhabit the world and relate to each other in ways that are non-extractive, anti-capitalist, and queer? Her exhibition AFTER LIFE (we survive) at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which Dr. Quiray Tagle will be discussing for the Evergreen lecture, is the second of a series of research-based curatorial projects about creative modes of surviving climate collapse and political violence practiced by LGBTQ and BIPOC peoples; the first, AFTER LIFE (what remains), ran from June-July 2018 at The Alice, an independent gallery in Seattle run by a collective of femme and queer artists that Thea was proud to be a member of from 2018 through its closure in 2019. Thea’s writing on Filipinx American contemporary art, visual cultures of violence, urban redevelopment in the Bay Area, and grassroots activism and speculative futures in the expanded Pacific Rim can be found in scholarly and popular venues including ASAP/J, American Quarterly, and Hyperallergic. During the COVID-19 crisis, Thea is a visitor on occupied Ohlone territory. For more about her writing, teaching, and curatorial projects, visit her website: www.theaquiraytagle.com

Week 2: Rafael Soldi, Wednesday, October 9th, 2019, 11:30-1pm in the Recital Hall of the COM Building

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian-born, Seattle-based artist and curator. He holds a BFA in Photography & Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, American University Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, ClampArt, The Print Center, G. Gibson Gallery, Connersmith, Filter Space, and Burrard Arts Foundation, among others. Rafael is a 2012 Magenta Foundation Award Winner, and recipient of the 2014 Puffin Foundation grant, 2015 Portable Works Cultural Perspectives Purchase Grant, 2016 smART Ventures grant, 2016 Jini Dellaccio GAP grant, 2017 CityArtist Projects Grant, and a 2017 & 2019 4Culture Arts Projects Grant. He has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, PICTURE BERLIN, Oxbow Space, and the Bogliasco Foundation.

His work is in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, King County Public Art Collection, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has been published in PDN, Dwell, Hello Mr, Metropolis, GRAY, LUXE, Lagom, among others. His work has been reviewed on ARTFORUM, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Lensculture, Photograph Magazine, The Seen, Art Nexus, and PDN. Rafael is the co-founder of the Strange Fire Collective, a project dedicated to highlighting work made by women, people of color, and queer and trans artists.

Week 6 Fionn Meade, former Greener! Wednesday, May 9th 2018, 11:30-1:00pm in the Recital Hall, COM Building

June 15, 2021 / Steve

An independent curator based in New York and Seattle, Meade has served as Artistic Director (2015-17) and Senior Curator, Cross-Disciplinary Platforms (2014-15), at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where he headed the Visual Arts Department. He has been a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2009-2014), and in the MFA Program for Visual Arts, Columbia University (2009-2014).

Exhibitions at the Walker Art Center included the retrospective survey Merce Cunningham: Common Time, curated for the Walker and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, group exhibitions Question the Wall Itself, Less Than One, the first U.S. solo exhibition of German artist Andrea Büttner and the Walker Art Center’s presentation of Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, featuring work from the 1960s to the present.

He also oversaw commissions of public artworks for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Walker campus by Theaster Gates, Nairy Baghramian, and Philippe Parreno. He has previously been a curator at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, and at SculptureCenter, New York, where exhibitions included Scene, Hold, Ballast with David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, and the group exhibitions Time Again and Knight’s Move, a survey of new sculpture in New York, among others.

He served as Director of Grant Programs at Artist Trust, Seattle (2003-2006), as a writing instructor and consultant for Richard Hugo House, Seattle (2001-06), and as a lecturer at the University of Washington. The recipient of an Arts Writer Grant from Creative Capital (2009) and the Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship (Fall 2014), he holds a M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University (1999) and an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard (2009), and received his B.F.A from Evergreen State College.

Julia Heineccius: Wednesday, March 9, 11:30-1:00 pm in the 2nd floor Recital Hall in the COM Building

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Julia Heineccius studied art and medical history at the University of Washington, and graduated in 2012 with an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has worked as an artisan and artist assistant, curator and teacher. Her own work has been in recent exhibitions at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, and in a bowling alley in Munich. Julia is currently teaching 3D metals in Thinking Through Craft at Evergreen.

Linda Weintraub: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015, 11:30-1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. Her recent writing explores the vanguard intersection between art and environmentalism, including TO LIFE! Eco Art In Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet (University of California Press). Weintraub’s previous books on eco-art include the series, Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology (2007). Weintraub established Artnow Publications in order to apply environmental responsibility to the books’ material production. She is also the author of In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists and Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society. Weintraub served as the Director of the Bard College museum where she curated over sixty exhibitions. She was the Henry Luce Professor of Emerging arts at Oberlin College. Her current book projects include Art-is-an Environmental Health Clinic (author) and In The Making: Creative Options For Contemporary Architecture (editor).

Seattle Catalog: Wednesday November, 28, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 / Steve

Seattle Catalog is both an art project and a for-profit company. As a for-profit company, Sea-Cat takes the form of a tri-yearly sales catalog with carefully selected artwork by different artists. As an art project, it is a collaboration by Gretchen Bennett, Wynne Greenwood and Matthew Offenbacher.

Sea-Cat is a teaching / learning art gallery and catalog sales business. In our experience, the selling of work can feel removed from and even opposite the experience of community and meaningful connection. We are interested in opening up the access to and experience of art purchasing and selling. We’re trying to experience community within a sales environment.

Sea-Cat engages individual practices, involving creators from various communities and backgrounds. Our goals include: building an audience for and selling experimental artwork; creating interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and transitive programming; nurturing individual practices into new and fruitful areas; examining and re-evaluating the idea of “value”.

We want everyone to build upon their individual practices, while also realizing new language and creating new connections. By everyone we mean: artists, performers, ourselves, our advisory board, audiences, you. This cooperative framework is intended to put practices into discursive motion. We hope Sea-Cat will reflect some of the social, geographical and artistic conditions and contradictions of shifting positions, roles, and open-ended outcomes.

Catharina Manchanda: Wednesday November, 7, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 / Steve

Catharina Manchanda joined the Seattle Art Museum in 2011 as Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Contemporary Art. A native of Germany, she received her Ph.D. at the City University Graduate Center in New York specializing in German conceptual photography of the 1960s and ‘70s. While in New York she helped organize a retrospective of Gerhard Richter’s paintings at the Museum of Modern Art. At the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis she curated Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture with work from the 1960s to the present, and Models and Prototypes, which investigated the prevalence of architectural and conceptual models as templates for artistic production. Prior to her move to Seattle she worked as Senior Curator at the Wexner Center for Contemporary Art where she organized exhibitions on Robin Rhode and Cyprien Gaillard. For SAM, she is currently curating a series of exhibitions and installations for Elles: SAM, including a focused show on Yayoi Kusama, a presentation of paintings by Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler, conceptual works by Jenny Holzer and Adrian Piper, and accompanying video program. Her published writings address a range of topics from photography and conceptual art, to essays on individual artists such as Gerhard Richter, Thomas Demand, Braco Dimitrijevic, Robin Rhode, Cyprien Gaillard and George Grosz.

Fionn Meade: Wednesday, October 5, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 / Steve

Fionn Meade is Curator at SculptureCenter, NY, where recent group
exhibitions include Knight’s Move, a survey of new sculpture in New
York, and Leopards in the Temple, with Lothar Baumgarten, Das
Institut, Patrick Hill, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Lucy Skaer,
and Kathrin Sonntag, among others. Recent curatorial projects also
include Nachleben, co-organized with Lucy Raven at Goethe Institut,
NY, which engaged Aby Warburg’s thinking and included works by Matthew
Buckingham, Patricia Esquivias, William E. Jones, Harun Farocki,
Rachel Harrison, John Miller, Stan VanDerBeek, James Welling,
Christopher Wool, and Akram Zaatari, among others, and Entr’acte at
Catherine Bastide with Tom Burr, James Coleman, David Noonan, William
Pope.L, Catherine Sullivan, and Rosemarie Trockel. His writing appears
in Artforum, Bomb, Bidoun, The Fillip Review, Mousse, and Parkett,
among other publications, and he received a 2009 Arts Writer Grant
from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Recently
released catalog writing includes essays on Elad Lassry for the
Kunsthalle Zurich (JRP/Ringier), and Mark Morrisroe for the Fotomuseum
Winterthur (JRP/Ringier). He holds an MA from the Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and MFA in Creative Writing from
Columbia University

Catherine Person: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 11:30-1:00 Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 / Steve

A Pacific Northwest native, Catherine Person was raised with a family
tradition of entrepreneurship. Her Russian grandfather, Max Person,
immigrated to San Francisco in 1915, and made Seattle his home a year
later. Max was a natural salesman and soon became self-employed,
running his own businesses for more than fifty years. Catherine’s
father, Dave, ran a successful real estate firm for forty years in
King County.

Catherine graduated from the Evergreen State College in 1976 and after
a five month stay working in Hawaii, moved to Seattle in 1977.
She had the good fortune of finding free-lance work in the local art
scene soon after arrival and produced a number of projects for One
Reel and The Bumbershoot Arts Festival.

In 1987, Catherine opened her art advisory firm in Seattle to support
independent artists, working with everyone from first-time buyers to
corporate curators. Clients have included Nordstrom, Microsoft,
Unisys, Boeing, Safeco, Puget Sound Energy, Olson Kundig Architects,
Swedish Medical Center and the Westin Hotel in Lincoln Square.

From September 2005 – June 2011, Catherine Person Gallery was located
in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square, with a focus on contemporary
art by artists from Tokyo to Tasmania and from around the United
States – but who are mainly working and residing in the Pacific
Northwest. Catherine continues to place fine art in corporate and residential
collections, working from a private office and enjoying life
without the constraints of a brick and mortar business.
Catherine represented retail businesses on the Pioneer Square
Preservation Board for four years, which oversees all exterior
architectural changes to storefronts, sidewalks, parks and new
construction through a review process.

Seattle Times, May 2011 on Catherine Person Gallery:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2014969601_person06.html

Seattle Channel 21′s Art Zone has a new program called ‘Gallery Hop’
with Nancy Guppy. The CPG interview is at:
http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=3280703