{"id":617,"date":"2021-06-15T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=617"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:39:18","slug":"week-6-fionn-meade-former-greener-wednesday-may-9th-2018-1130-100pm-in-the-recital-hall-com-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/week-6-fionn-meade-former-greener-wednesday-may-9th-2018-1130-100pm-in-the-recital-hall-com-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 Fionn Meade, former Greener! Wednesday, May 9th 2018, 11:30-1:00pm in the Recital Hall, COM Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2021\/06\/Fionn-Meade.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-618\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An independent&nbsp;curator based in New York and Seattle,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fionnmeade.cargocollective.com\/\">Meade<\/a>&nbsp;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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibitions at the Walker Art Center included the retrospective survey&nbsp;<em>Merce Cunningham: Common Time<\/em>, curated for the Walker and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, group exhibitions&nbsp;<em>Question the Wall Itself<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Less Than One,<\/em>&nbsp;the first U.S. solo exhibition of German artist Andrea B\u00fcttner and the Walker Art Center\u2019s presentation of&nbsp;<em>Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art<\/em>, featuring work from the 1960s to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;<em>Scene, Hold, Ballast<\/em>&nbsp;with David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, and the group exhibitions&nbsp;<em>Time Again<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Knight\u2019s Move<\/em>, a survey of new sculpture in New York, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;<strong>received his B.F.A from Evergreen State College.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evergreen Art Lecture Series: Fionn Meade\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SzICFZelaRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent&nbsp;curator based in New York and Seattle,&nbsp;Meade&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[109,8],"tags":[3,35,31,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}