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Saturday, April 24, 2021 – 10am-4pm
Sunday, April 25, 2021 – 11am-2pm
Registration end April 10 at 11:59pm EST
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MEET THE 2021 REVIEWERS
Kelly Bennett
Exhibition Curator/Program Officer, Mass Cultural Council
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Kelly Bennett is the Mass Cultural Council’s exhibitions curator and a program officer. She coordinates the statewide Artists Fellowship Program in choreography, crafts, drawing/printmaking, painting, photography, and sculpture/installation/new genres, and organizes exhibitions of fellows’ work with museums, galleries, and art centers. She coauthors the MCC’s ArtSake blog, which highlights artists’ work and posts exhibition opportunities. She serves as a juror and guest speaker for colleges, universities, museums, nonprofit art centers, and private foundations throughout New England. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and her BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art. She is a painter of coastal New England and supports climate science and environmental protections.
Leonie Bradbury
Distinguished Curator in Residence, Emerson Contemporary
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Leonie Bradbury, Ph.D. is the Foster Chair of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston. She teaches a seminar in Curating Contemporary Art as well as a new course on The Moving Image in Contemporary Art. She directs Emerson’s platform for visual art “Emerson Contemporary,” that is focused on presenting and commissioning moving image art, performance art, and emergent creative technologies within a socio-political context. She curates exhibitions for several spaces on campus including the Media Art Gallery and organizes public art events in the city of Boston. Previously, she served as the Director of Art and Creative Initiatives at HUBweek, an innovation festival showcasing intersections of art, science, and technology. In this role, she managed two large outdoor exhibitions, developed a robust performing arts program, collaborated with artists and art organizations to promote opportunities for cultural partnerships.
Dan Byers
Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Dan Byers is the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Lecturer in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, where he teaches curatorial studies. His recent exhibitions at the Carpenter Center include Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late, Vol II (2020, with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art in London and ARGOS in Brussels), Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love (2019, with PARTICIPANT, INC in New York), Anna Oppermann: Drawings (2019), and Liz Magor: Blowout (2019, with the Renaissance Society at University of Chicago). Previously, he was Mannion Family Senior Curator at the ICA/Boston, where he organized solo exhibitions featuring Diane Simpson, Geoffrey Farmer, and Steve McQueen, and group exhibitions The Artist’s Museum and the 2017 Foster Prize Exhibition. Before moving to Boston, Byers was Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and co-curator, with Daniel Baumann and Tina Kukielski, of the critically acclaimed 2013 Carnegie International, which featured major works by 35 artists from 19 countries. In addition to also overseeing the Carnegie’s acquisitions of modern and contemporary art, his projects there included the first US museum shows of Cathy Wilkes and Ragnar Kjartansson. Before the Carnegie, he was Curatorial Fellow at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Assistant to the Directors at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Byers was Chair of the 2019 Curatorial Leadership Summit at the Armory Show, co-organizer (with Ruba Katrib) of Why New Forms, the Center for Curatorial Studies 20th anniversary curatorial conference, and is a contributor to Pigeons on the Grass, Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk About the Field (Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, 2013).
Mike Carroll
Owner/Director, The Schoolhouse Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Mike Carroll is a curator, gallerist, advisor, and producer in the world of fine art. He attended Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and was involved in Boston’s then thriving underground scene. He ran live performances and the video section at The Boston Film Video Foundation when video was in its black and white reel infancy. He opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour in the early 1980’s where he produced exhibitions and events by members of The Boston School. He was the executive director at Provincetown’s Schoolhouse Center from 1997-2004 and has been the owner and director of the Schoolhouse Gallery since 2005 where he is well known for presenting the finest in contemporary art. Since 1998 Schoolhouse has worked to present the finest in collaboration and new thought in our Provincetown gallery space and at a variety of fairs and outside exhibition projects. Carroll also works with industry professionals to curate and present fine art in professional spaces and advise on collections management. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Twenty Summers and sits on the Advisory Board of Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center. He writes and speaks on making, studio practices and exhibition spaces.
Lynne Cooney
Curator, Art Historian, Educator, and Curator, Boston University
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Lynne Cooney, PhD, is an art historian, educator, and curator with over fifteen years’ experience working with arts institutions and cultural non-profit organizations. She is the former Artistic Director and chief curator of the Boston University Art Galleries where she curated numerous group and solo exhibitions for the Stone and 808 Galleries including solo projects by the artists Willie Cole, Raul Gonzalez, Geoffrey Chadsey, Alexandria Smith, and Sheila Pree Bright. Lynne received her MA/PhD in art history from Boston University’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture and her research focuses on collection and exhibition histories. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to South Africa in 2014-2015.
Lisa Crossman
Curator, Mead Art Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
Lisa Crossman, Ph.D., is Curator of American Art and Arts of the Americas at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Prior to her position at the Mead, she was Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, worked with the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University, and edited and wrote for Big Red & Shiny. Her doctoral work and later professional experiences have bolstered her continued efforts to support contemporary artists and create links among art museums, universities, and community partners.
Cathleen Daley
Co-Founder/Director, Room 83 Spring; Writer
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Cathleen Daley’s paintings and installations have been presented in numerous museums, universities, and galleries, including OK Harris, NY; New Britain Museum of American Art; Fitchburg, Provincetown and Nassau County Art Museums; and are held in the permanent collections of museums as well as private and corporate collectors. Represented by Provincetown’s Alden Gallery, reviews of her work have been published in the Boston Globe, Art New England and artscope. Ms. Daley holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She is co-founder/curator of Room 83 Spring, an artist-run curatorial project space in Watertown, MA established in 2014. In 2020, she curated the fiber-friendly and as Cate McQuaid wrote “merrily subversive” “Soft Shoulder” at the Cambridge Art Association.
Jeffrey De Blois
Assistant Curator, ICA Boston
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Jeffrey De Blois is Assistant Curator and Publications Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Since coming to the ICA in 2015, De Blois has organized i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times (with Ruth Erickson, Anni Pullagura, and Eva Respini), William Kentridge: KABOOM!, Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Carolina Caycedo: Cosmotarrayas, Jason Moran (originally from Walker Art Center in Minneapolis), Caitlin Keogh: Blank Melody, and The Freedom of Information, part of First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA. He has been a critical contributor to several other major projects at the ICA, including Sterling Ruby, Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects, and Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, among many others. De Blois oversees the museum’s ambitious publications program alongside the Chief Curator. His writing has appeared in several museum publications, in Harvard Review, and in monographs on artists Caitlin Keogh and Sterling Ruby. Before joining the ICA, De Blois was the curatorial fellow at MIT List Visual Arts Center. He holds a M.A. in the History of Art & Architecture from Boston University.
Carol Fabricant
Curatorial Assistant, Currier Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Carol Fabricant is the curatorial project manager at the Currier Museum of Art. In her role she works across departments to bring complex exhibitions and special projects to fruition. She also manages the artist-in-residence program, which launched its first national open call to artists in 2020. The Artists in the Community residency invites social practice artists to the Currier who share the museum’s goal of impacting people through the transformative power of art.
Kelly Filocco
Boston Art
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Kelly Filocco is a senior art consultant at Boston Art and has been developing art programs for corporations, healthcare institutions, and multi-family buildings in the Boston area for over 20 years. A graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in business and a concentration in marketing, Kelly approaches her projects with a deep appreciation for the benefits that a carefully-chosen art program can have on the productivity and well-being of her clients. Kelly’s experience ranges from large-scale, highly detailed projects to collection management advice for clients with extensive existing collections. Kelly has chosen the artwork and managed the collections of Boston Scientific, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 345 Harrison, and Maine Medical Center. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and daughter.
Gina Fraone
Director, Lanoue Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Gina Fraone is the current Director of Lanoue Gallery in Boston’s SoWa Arts District. She has worked as a professional art consultant, gallery director, and exhibitions curator for well over a decade, building both private art collections and sourcing for public art spaces. Prior to joining Lanoue Gallery, Gina spent four years running a contemporary art gallery on the Bowery in Manhattan, where she curated numerous exhibitions with both mid-career and emerging artists. She has been a course instructor for both the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and for “Looking Together” courses at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She holds an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.
David Guerra
Owner/Director, Area Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Aynel David Guerra is an independent curator, lecturer, and the owner/founder of Á R E A, a multi-format and interdisciplinary gallery that organizes exhibitions and projects. David has organized exhibitions at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, the Boston Center for the Arts, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (VVCA), MIT Hacking Arts and The Yard. Invited by Montserrat College of Art, he curated a site specific project at Gallery 301 during the month September, 2019. The project featured the work of Cuban artist Adrian Fernandez Milanes. He also has experience activating alternative spaces where he has hosted interdisciplinary projects. David was the guest curator of the 2019 edition of the Illuminus Festival, which showcased the work of 17 artists working on new media technologies and focusing on social, political and environmental issues. He is currently a professor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, where he teaches curatorial thinking in contemporary art. He studied law at the University of Havana, Oxford and Harvard. He also holds a degree in International Relations from the Higher Institute of International Relations in Havana, Cuba where he worked as a diplomat for four years.
Caitee Hoglund
Gallery Director, 13FOREST Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Caitee Hoglund joined 13FOREST Gallery as the Director in 2017, where she has been curating a dynamic program of exhibitions and events with a wide variety of Boston’s finest artists. Hoglund has also served as a juror for several local arts institutions, including the Attleboro Arts Museum, Mosesian Center for the Arts, and the Arlington Center for the Arts. Before her time at 13FOREST, Hoglund earned her Master’s Degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.
Brian Hone
Manager of Studio Projects, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Brian Hone is an arts professional and designer based in Boston, Massachusetts who transforms museum and cultural spaces through interactivity, creativity, and collaboration. As founder of Brian Hone & Studio, and in his current role as Manager of Studio Projects with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, he works to make art more accessible to everyone. Prior to joining the Gardner in 2015, he began his career with the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and a Bachelor of Science in art education from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and a Master of Liberal Arts in museum studies from Harvard University, Extension School (Cambridge, MA). As an active participant and leader in the local arts ecosystem, Brian breaks down barriers to arts and culture within the city of Boston. In September 2020, he was appointed as a Commissioner to the Boston Art Commission. In this role, he works with the other Commissioners and staff within the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture to maintain the city’s art collection and to commission new, transformative public art that enriches and enlivens the urban environment. In his freetime, Brian enjoys singing with the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.
Megan Horn
Curatorial Assistant, Newport Art Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Megan Horn is the curatorial assistant at the Newport Art Museum. Since arriving at the Newport Art Museum, she has collaborated with the curatorial team and exhibiting artists to help realize the Museum’s exhibitions. Recently, she curated Light and Presence: Richard Benson’s “The Touro Synagogue” and co-curated Donna Ferrato: Selections from “Living with the Enemy” with Senior Curator, Francine Weiss. Megan earned her BA in art history from Vassar College in 2019 and previously worked at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the 12-Month Internship program.
Will Hutnick
Director of Artistic Programming, Wassaic Project
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Will Hutnick is an artist and curator based in Wassaic, NY. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and his B.A. from Providence College (Providence, RI). Hutnick’s work has been exhibited most recently at Satellite Art Club (Brooklyn), Craven Contemporary (Kent, CT), Collar Works (Troy, NY), St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, NY, solo), Standard Space (Sharon, CT, solo), One River School (Hartsdale, NY, solo), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), LVL3 Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Providence College Galleries (Providence, solo). His work has been featured in New American Paintings, Art Maze Mag, Maake Magazine, and Frontrunner Magazine, among others. Hutnick has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute (New York and Brooklyn), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Hamiltonian Gallery (Washington, DC) and Standard Space. He has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences (Rabun Gap, GA), Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works (Granville, NY), DNA Gallery (Provincetown, MA), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte (Sirmione, Italy) and Trestle Projects (Brooklyn). Hutnick is a 2017 Martha Boschen Porter Fund grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation as well as a 2015 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. From 2015 – 2020, Hutnick was one of the Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.
Jameson Johnson
Editor-in-Chief, Boston Art Review
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Jameson Johnson is a writer, curator, and community organizer based in Boston. Since 2017, she has served as the founder and editor in chief at Boston Art Review, an online and print publication committed to facilitating discourse around contemporary art in Boston and beyond. She has curated exhibitions at Boston Center for the Arts, Fountain Street, Boston Cyberarts, as well as served on juries across New England. In 2019, Johnson became the marketing and development associate at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
LaiSun Keane
LaiSun Keane
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | LaiSun Keane is the owner of an eponymous gallery in Boston’s SoWa Arts District, which specializes in contemporary works of art by American and International artists. LaiSun graduated with a Bachelor of Art Theory from University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. After graduating, she was involved with the non-profit gallery, the National Art School Gallery, and a commercial art gallery, AAG, which specialized in Australian Aboriginal Art. She moved to Boston in 2013 and in her indefatigable fashion, dived straight into the local art scene volunteering with many film festivals and non-profit art establishments. It ultimately led to her involvement with a long established ceramic gallery in Concord for five years, of which the final two years she was a partner. In April 2020, LaiSun started her own gallery, and has since staged ten exhibitions focusing on emerging artists, women, minorities and the overlooked.
Kate McNamara
Curator-at-Large; Executive and Creative Director, Providence College Galleries; My HomeCourt
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Kate McNamara is a curator and educator based in Providence, RI. She is the Executive and Creative Director of My HomeCourt, a nonprofit arts organization working with contemporary artists to revitalize city parks. McNamara is also working as the Curator-at-Large for Providence College-Galleries during the 2021-2022 season and is a Visiting Critic at Rhode Island School of Art and Design. Previously, McNamara served as Director of Galleries and Exhibitions at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, where she curated significant exhibitions and commissioned large-scale solo projects with a range of artists including: Polly Apfelbaum, Anna Craycroft and Kenzi Shiokava. Prior to joining Otis College, McNamara worked as Director and Chief Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery where she organized exhibitions with Leidy Churchman, Destroy All Monsters and Vlatka Horvat, among others. McNamara is also co-founder of Cleopatra’s, a former alternative Brooklyn-based project space founded in 2008. She has held curatorial positions at MoMA PS1, NY and Participant, INC., NY. McNamara received her MA at The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA with a Curatorial Concentration from Hampshire College, MA.
Selby Nimrod
Assistant Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Selby Nimrod is the Assistant Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Since joining the List Center in 2018, she has organized solo exhibitions with Rami George and Cindy Ji Hye Kim, and a traveling presentation of Nayland Blake’s major survey, No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake. She has assisted on solo presentations of the work of Ericka Beckman, Christine Sun Kim, Alicja Kwade, and Farah Al Qasimi, among others. Previously, she held positions at SculptureCenter, New York, and Site Projects, New Haven. As an independent curator, she has realized group exhibitions, screenings, and performances at institutions including the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York; the Kitchen, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Seton Gallery at the University of New Haven; and a swimsuit factory. Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, AQNB, and Big Red & Shiny as well as in several journals and catalogues, including a monograph on Ericka Beckman published by Hirmer Verlag in 2019. She earned an undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Selby is the recipient of a 2020 Étant donnés Curatorial Research Fellowship from the French American Cultural Exchange.
Christine O’Donnell
Owner & Gallery Manager, Beacon Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Christine O’Donnell, the Owner and Director of Beacon Gallery, opened Beacon Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts in 2017 after over a decade spent living and working in Paris, Hong Kong, and Singapore. While living abroad, Christine honed her eye for art in museums and galleries and also befriended local artists. With her background in education and the arts, Christine brings a unique curatorial eye and passion for social justice to the shows she curates. She is the primary curator at Beacon Gallery but also curates and juries shows independently. Christine teaches workshops for artists and art enthusiasts through multiple channels including her registered 501(c)3, Beacon Gallery Consulting, SCORE, Newton’s New Art Center and beyond. Christine is an appraiser with member designation at the International Society of Appraisers. She is also a member of the Association of Women’s Art Dealers (AWAD), and an art blogger (thoughtsonart.com). Christine has a master’s degree from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is currently pursuing an MA in Art History through the United Kingdom’s Open University.
Hadley Powell
Independent Art Advisor, Powell Fine Art Advisory
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Hadley Powell’s expertise spans from Old Master prints to Contemporary Art. She started her career at Christie’s, New York as a specialist in the Prints & Multiples Department where she researched and cataloged prints from Rembrandt to Rauschenberg. Subsequently in the Impressionist & Modern Art department, she worked on the high profile evening sales where she advised clients buying and selling at auction and assisted in private collection management and fine art appraisals. After moving to Boston, Hadley worked at the intersection of arts and technology at the online auction platform, Invaluable. As a Senior Product Manager at Invaluable, she optimized the buying and bidding experience, both on mobile and desktop. Hadley launched her full service art advisory business, Powell Fine Art Advisory in 2016, where she helps clients buy, sell and manage their art collections. She has just completed a two-year term as Chair of the Museum Council, the young patrons group of the MFA, Boston and sits on the Leadership Council Steering Committee of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA.
Marjorie Rawle
Terrana Associate Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Marjorie Rawle is an emerging curator based in the Greater Boston area and is currently the Terrana Assistant Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM). At FAM, she has worked on exhibitions such as Daniela Rivera: Labored Landscapes (where hand meets ground), After Spiritualism: Loss and Transcendence in Contemporary Art, and The BIG Picture: Giant Photographs and Powerful Portfolios, currently on view. She earned her MA in art history from Tulane University in 2019, with a focus in Post-war American art, and earned her BA in art history from the College of Charleston in 2016. Marjorie has held curatorial, editorial, and nonprofit management positions in New Orleans, LA at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Antenna Gallery, and Pelican Bomb, and in Charleston, SC at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Art Mag, and Robert Lange Studios.
Jessica Roscio
Curator, Danforth Art at Framingham State University
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Jessica Roscio joined the Danforth Art Museum in 2011, became Curator in 2015, and was appointed Director in 2020. Selected exhibitions include The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior, Beautiful Decay, Dressed, Family Circle, Barbara Swan: Reflected Self, and Lois Tarlow: Material Vocabulary. Prior to the Danforth, Roscio held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She taught courses at Emerson College and Suffolk University, and is a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on contemporary photography in New England. Roscio has an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.
Caitlin Julia Rubin
Associate Curator, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Caitlin Julia Rubin is the Associate Curator & Director of Programs at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Since joining the Rose, she has organized exhibitions and projects by Mark Dion, Rosalyn Drexler, Jennie C. Jones, JJ PEET, Tuesday Smillie, and Caroline Woolard, among others; collaborated with visiting artists to foster new, site-responsive initiatives; and curated numerous collection-focused presentations, including the 2020 exhibition Yesterday’s Tomorrow.
Lauren Szumita
Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Lauren Szumita is the Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum and teaches art history at Anna Maria College, where she also serves on the Arts and Culture Committee. Previously, she was the Curatorial Assistant of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Worcester Art Museum where she oversaw the Central Massachusetts Artists Initiative (CMAI) rotation for contemporary, regional artists. She received her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon and BA in Art History from Boston College.
Leah Triplett Harrington
Assistant Curator, Now + There; Arts Writer
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Leah Triplett Harrington is a curator, writer, and editor. As assistant curator for Now + There she facilitates the Public Art Accelerator and also organizes large-scale public art commissions, most recently Ambrosia by Cicely Carew, The Shape of Play by Sari Carel, and ¡Provecho! by Justin Favela. She is also a founding editor of publication and platform The Rib and editor-at-large for Boston Art Review. Her writing has most recently appeared in those publications and Flash Art, Hyperallergic, WBUR’s The Artery, Big Red & Shiny, and The Brooklyn Rail. As an independent curator, she has organized projects for Boston University Art Galleries, Trestle Gallery, Herter Gallery, and others.
Terence Washington
Readying the Museum; previously at NXTHVN
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Terence Washington is the project director for Readying the Museum, a grant-funded think tank considering the future of museums. Terence found art history in undergrad after six years in the Air Force, going on to complete a Master’s in Art History at Williams College. After Williams, Terence spent three years at the National Gallery of Art, working in public programs and on strategic level projects. He left the NGA for NXTHVN, a residency and gallery space for emerging artists and curators located in New Haven, CT, where he spent the latter half of 2020.
Emily Watlington
Critic, Curator, Assistant Editor, Art in America
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Emily Watlington is a critic, curator, and assistant editor at Art in America. She writes on topics including art, design, disability justice, and feminism. She is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a SMArchS in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT. Her writing has been assigned on syllabi at universities including Oberlin, New York University, and Harvard; has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Baffler, Mousse, Frieze, and Another Gaze. It has been translated into German, French, and Croatian. Recently, she contributed to the exhibition catalogues Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995, Sheida Soleimani: Medium of Exchange, and An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art. In 2018, she received the Vera List Writing Prize in the Visual Arts, and in 2020, the Theorist Award from C/O Berlin (2020).
Shari Weschler
Coastal Contemporary Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Shari Weschler, branded as Sumo Bunni, is a figural narrative painter who exhibits nationally and internationally. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, with concentration in painting and art history. While attending MICA she also studied drawing, printmaking, and gelatin silver photography. Weschler has had over thirty solo exhibitions, participated in over forty group shows and has been published extensively. As the owner and director of Coastal Contemporary Gallery, founded May of 2018 in Newport, Rhode Island, her greatest passion lies within the process of curating and writing. The gallery represents over thirty artists with an expanding list of national and international guest artists.
Murray Whyte
Art Critic, The Boston Globe
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
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