Artadia and Project for Empty Space are excited to present a moderated Q&A session for artists and cultural workers to engage directly with leading curators. This event is a fantastic opportunity to ask any pressing questions about the curatorial process, career paths, and the nuances of art curation. Our panelists are Alyssa Alexander, Independent Curator and PES Feminist Futures Fellow; Jackson Davidow, Independent Curator, Scholar, and John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums; and Stamatina Gregory, Head Curator and Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

“Ask a Curator” will take place on July 15, from 6–8pm at PES Futures in New York City. PES Futures is located at 128 Baxter Street in Manhattan’s historic Chinatown neighborhood.

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About the speakers:

Alyssa Alexander is an independent curator and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY.  With a background in journalism and critical writing, she is currently building a curatorial practice and pursuing more in-depth cultural and art-historical research that centers artists of African descent. She is dedicated to working with emerging artists and institutions to cultivate a more accessible and equitable creative economy. Most recently, she was awarded the Inaugural Feminist Futures Curatorial Fellowship from Project For Empty Space. 

Jackson Davidow is a writer, curator, and the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Baffler, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and throughout the art press. After earning his Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture from MIT, he worked at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts University’s Translating Race Lab and the Center for the Humanities. He is completing a book about global AIDS cultural activism.

Stamatina Gregory is a curator and art historian. They have taught art history, critical theory, and writing at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Parsons/The New School, and Sotheby’s Institute, and have organized exhibitions for institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Santa Monica Museum of Art/ICA LA, Austrian Cultural Forum, and the 55th Venice Biennale. They are the Head Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.