Xandra Eden assumed her position at DiverseWorks in June 2015, having most recently served as Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Previously, she held positions at The Power Plant, Toronto; Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York; and Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin. Eden will speak about her past curatorial projects and vision for DiverseWorks’ future programming.
Chris Sharp is based in Mexico City and is editor-at-large of Kaleidoscope magazine, a contributing editor of Art Review, and his writings have appeared in many print and online publications including Artforum, Frieze, and Mousse. In 2013 he co-founded, with artist Martin Soto Climent, Lulu, an independent, Mexico City-based project space.
Diverse Discourse brings national curators, artistic directors, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with selected Houston-area artists, performers, and writers. Diverse Discourse provides a significant opportunity for area artists in all disciplines to have their work reviewed by a variety of distinguished arts professionals, fostering a cultural exchange across the nation between artists and cultural producers. Click here for studio visit application guidelines. ABOUT ANGELA MATTOX Angela Mattox is the Artistic Director of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), which presents performance and visual art programs and embraces those artists who exist at the borders of disciplines and ideas. Through the annual TBA Festival, artist residencies, performances, exhibitions, and workshops, PICA creates a broad platform for contemporary art and vital issues of today. Her global curatorial approach focuses on experimental performance practice, cross cultural exchange, and interdisciplinary work. Mattox was the former Performing Arts Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) - San Francisco’s leading multidisciplinary contemporary art center. She joined the curatorial team in 2003 and was instrumental in revitalizing the performing arts presenting program. In her eight years at YBCA, she supported such visionary artists as Ralph Lemon, Meg Stuart, Nick […]
Diverse Discourse brings national curators, artistic directors, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with selected Houston-area artists, performers, and writers. Diverse Discourse provides a significant opportunity for area artists in all disciplines to have their work reviewed by a variety of distinguished arts professionals, fostering a cultural exchange across the nation between artists and cultural producers. Click here for studio visit application guidelines. ABOUT SOFÍA HERNÁNDEZ CHONG CUY Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy is the curator of contemporary art for the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a position she has held since 2011. In the past decade, Hernández Chong Cuy was Director of the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and held curatorial positions at Art in General and Americas Society, the latter two in New York. She has curated exhibitions for Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, MALBA in Buenos Aires, Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, and MUSAC in León. Sofía was an agent for dOCUMENTA(13), 2012, in Kassel. She was also the artistic director and chief curator of the 9a Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre, which took place from September 13 to November 10, 2013, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She writes regularly for […]
CURATING AND THE CRISIS OF THE PUBLIC DOMINIC WILLSDON Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education & Public Practice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Curating is the task of making art public. It may entail producing exhibitions, but also performances and collective actions, talks and discussions, screenings, classes and workshops, media content and books. But how is it possible to make art public in a time and a place when the very idea of the public is broken? Dominic Willsdon will address this question with reference to curatorial projects he has collaborated to produce -- in Brazil, England, South Africa and the United States. He will draw on ideas collected in his book Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, co-edited with Johanna Burton and Shannon Jackson, which is published this month. TICKETS Diverse Discourse is free, but RSVPs are requested. Click here to reserve tickets. ABOUT DOMINIC WILLSDON Dominic Willsdon is Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Practice at SFMOMA, where he directs a curatorial department of pedagogical and cultural programming that comprises school initiatives, public dialogue, performance, and film. Willsdon was Pedagogical Cloud Curator of the 9th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2013) and […]