Who Curates Contemporary Art?
- Special Event
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Currently Under Curation cohort, at the Carnegie Museum of Art
About The Event
Hear from young creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs who approach curating contemporary art with new perspectives and operate outside the traditional confines of the art museum.
Antwoine Washington and Michael C. Russell II of the Museum of Creative Human Art (opens in a new tab), Lique Gates and Britney Kuehm of Current Cleveland (opens in a new tab), and young creatives who are part of the CMA’s Currently Under Curation (CUC) Fellows program discuss their practices, experiences, and goals when crafting exhibitions.
CAN Triennial (opens in a new tab) curator Thea Spittle moderates the discussion.
This event also recognizes the accomplishments of the CMA’s CUC Fellows, part of the CAN Triennial curatorial team.
Featured Art
All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen and Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Medical Mutual of Ohio, the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous donor, Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Susan LaPine, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Suzanne Cushwa Rusnak and Jeff Rusnak, Ellen and Lowell Satre, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.