CAA Day Virtual Program: Panel Discussion: Curating Change

05/21/2021 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM ET

Admission

  • Free

Location

Virtual Meeting URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsc-GoqTMqH9S8rqBJ2ihWySnxfjFN8CUY

Description

This event is free and open to the public. Click the Virtual Event URL link to register directly on ZOOM. This event will not be recorded.
 
Join us for an open discussion about how to affect change via curatorial decision making. This panel will explore the ways in which professionals in the curatorial field are uplifting marginalized voices through their curatorial work, what role this effort plays in their individual curatorial practice, and actionable steps art institutions of all sizes can take to present inclusive, equitable exhibition programs and opportunities in regards to supporting the careers and growth of BIPOC/AAPI artists and curators.
 
PANELISTS
 
   
Panelists (Left to right): Rixy Fernandez, Aynel David Guerra, LaiSun Keane, Juan Omar Rodriguez
 
Rixy - Rixy received her BA in Studio Art at UMass Boston, with a concentration in Sculpture, that go beyond physical practice – understanding space, community, and what we feel in between. She has received the 2019 Ruth Butler Travel Fellowship for a Studio Residency in Mexico, and the 2017 Arts|Learning Award for Student Arts Advocacy. Her passion to expand her practice, personifies her drive to educate the community in overlooked disciplines, to provide access to the Arts for others. This has allowed her to evolve into a Teacher and Director, recently becoming an Adjunct Instructor at the Boston Architectural College, & the Public Art Coordinator of Central Sq’s BID's "Speak Your Piece" Campaign; exhibiting on street-wide to institutional walls.
 
Aynel David Guerra - David 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.
 
LaiSun Keane - 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. LaiSun started LaiSun Keane, a contemporary art gallery championing emerging artists, women, minorities and the overlooked, in April 2020. 
 
Juan Omar Rodriguez - Juan Omar is committed to making the art world more expansive by supporting emerging artists of color and queer artists. He is a Curatorial Fellow at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA and a Visiting Curator at the Boston Arts Academy in Boston, MA. He has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Tufts University Art Galleries. Most recently Juan Omar co-curated SMFA at Tufts: Juried Student Exhibition 2019–2020 at the MFA Boston. He received an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University in 2019 and a B.A. in Neuroscience from Oberlin College in 2017. Juan Omar was born in Phoenix, AZ and is currently living in Cambridge, MA. (He was also selected through our Curatorial Open Call to curate a show with CAA in January 2022.)
 
MODERATORS
 
  
Moderators: Aynel David Guerra and Candice Bancheri (CAA Program Manager)
 
 
 
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