Curating and Education Panel at Moore College

Curating and Education: Conversations with an International Panel
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 10am - 5pm

Moore College of Art & Design
20th and The Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
http://www.moore.edu

The Galleries at Moore in conjunction with Moore College of Art and Designís new BFA in Curatorial Studies present Curating and Education the second in an ongoing series of public conversations about issues and ideas in contemporary curatorial practice. Through a series of paired conversations with an international roster of distinguished panelists, we will discuss the creative nexus between curating and education. Questions to be considered include: What do the growing number of projects in which curators are creating educational forums as exhibitions suggest about opening up the creative exchange between curating and education? Given the institutional hierarchies that often impede creative collaboration between curators and educators, how can curating and education work together as powerful laboratories for the production of ideas? What is at stake and what is possible?

Participants:

EUNGIE JOO
Director & Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; former Director/Curator of the Gallery at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in Los Angeles

JANET KAPLAN
Professor of Art History and Director of the BFA in Curatorial Studies at Moore College of Art & Design

MARIA LIND
Incoming Director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York; currently Director of IASPIS (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm

PAULA MARINCOLA
Director of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative and the Heritage Philadelphia Program, at the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, of The Pew Charitable Trusts

LORIE MERTES
Director and Chief Curator of The Galleries at Moore; former Assistant Director of Special Projects and Curator at Miami Art Museum

PEPON OSORIO
Professor at Tyler School of the Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia; former artist-in-residence with Philadelphia Department of Human Services

IRIT ROGOFF
Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London; curator of "Academy - Learning from the Museum," Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

FRANKLIN SIRMANS
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection, Houston; Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

WENDY WOON
The Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Program

10-11am : Institutions and alternatives: What is at stake?
Pepon Osorio and Wendy Woon

11-12noon : Education as exhibition
Eungie Joo and Irit Rogoff

12-1:30pm: Lunch on your own (boxed lunches available in Mooreís cafeteria)

1:30-2:30pm : Public engagement and questions of access
Lorie Mertes and Franklin Sirmans

2:30-3:30pm: Complexities of participation
Maria Lind and Paula Marincola

3:30-4:30pm: Plenary and audience Q&A
Moderator Janet Kaplan

4:30pm: Reception

The program is free but pre-registration via e-mail is requested for planning purposes. PLEASE RSVP BY OCTOBER 19, 2007
jkaplan@moore.edu

This program is made possible through support from Frances and Bayard Storey.