Symposium: How Museums Are Diversifying Their Collections to Include Black and Brown Artists
Maura Reilly, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; Brittany Webb, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Catherine Evans, The Newark Museum of Art; Laura Giles, Princeton University Art Museum; Rachael Z. DeLue, Art and Archaeology
November 3, 2022 · 5:00 pm—7:00 pm · Art on Hulfish
Arts Council of Princeton
Join the Arts Council of Princeton for a symposium held in conjunction with ACP’s groundbreaking exhibition, RETRIEVING THE LIFE AND ART OF JAMES WILSON EDWARDS AND A CIRCLE OF BLACK ARTISTS.
A Williams College survey of the works in the collections of all major US museums in 2019 found that just 1.2% of works were created by Black artists. This symposium will present how museums are now working to diversify their collections.
This free event will take place at Art on Hulfish, with a reception to follow in the Arts Council of Princeton’s Taplin Gallery.
Participants:
Introduction
James Steward
Director, Princeton University Art Museum
Panelists
Maura Reilly
Director, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, author of Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating (Thames and Hudson, 2018)
Brittany Webb
Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Catherine Evans
Deputy Director of Collections and Curatorial Strategies, The Newark Museum of Art
Laura Giles
Heather and Paul G Haaga Jr. Class of 1970, Curator of Princeton and Drawings, Princeton University Art Museum
DISCUSSANT
Rachael Z. DeLue
Christopher Binyon Sarfim ’86 Professor in American Art and Faculty in American Studies; Chair, Art and Archaeology Department, Princeton University
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Adam Welch
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.
