Get tickets to Agnes Obel at Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA on 03/09/17

Source: Agnes Obel – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA, March 09, 2017 | Ticketfly

How do we curate history? What stories do we tell? How do we discuss challenging topics or display controversial images without alienating our visitors?

Join Museum Council for a panel discussion with three local curators, who will speak about some of the difficult choices museums and curators make when developing exhibits about historic and current events.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Historic Landmark Building, Hamilton Auditorium
118 N. Broad Street
Wednesday, March 8, 6:00 – 8:30pm
$5 for members | $10 non-members
**registration includes museum admission and light refreshments

Panelists:

Elizabeth Tinker—For 2 decades, Elizabeth Tinker has been creating exhibitions and performing audience evaluations by using a creative, inclusive, and sometimes provocative approach to projects. Most recently, she worked on the history and social justice exhibition, Waging Peace: 100 Years of Action, at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

Mark A. Castro—Mark began his career at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2005 and has curated several exhibitions, most recently acting as one of the four curators for Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950. He is also a doctoral candidate at Bryn Mawr College, where he is completing his dissertation on a series of paintings by the Baroque artist Cristóbal de Villalpando.

Kelli Morgan—Recently named the inaugural recipient of The Winston & Carolyn Lowe Curatorial Fellowship for Diversity in the Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Kelli Morgan is a very diligent scholar whose career is committed to creating stimulating and culturally sensitive educational opportunities for students and public audiences alike through innovative uses of minority-produced visual culture and the museum gallery. Her interdisciplinary research concentrates on African American visual culture, linking Art History, Women’s Studies, African American History, and Museum Studies to examine the ways in which people construct visual discourses, conceptualize images, and sometimes resist these discourses.

Source: Museum Council of Greater Philadelphia – Curating Conflict: Panel at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts